Olaj Olsen
Politician
1851 – 1920
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Who was Olaj Olsen?
Olaj Johan Olsen was a Norwegian jurist and politician.
He made a career as a civil servant in various government ministries. He was later promoted to serve as Minister of Justice and the Police and Minister of Finance and Customs in 1888 and 1889, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm from 1896 to 1897 and Minister of the Interior from 1897 to 1898.
He was also County Governor of Sogn og Fjordane from 1889. In 1902 he left this post to become burgomaster of his hometown Bergen.
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