Eilif Løvrak Holmesland

Who is Eilif Løvrak Holmesland?

Eilif Løvrak Holmesland was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Liberal Party.

He was born in Kristiania as the son of Peter Karl Holmesland and grandson of Simon Pedersen Holmesland, both former parliament members. He enrolled as a student in 1914, graduated as cand.jur. in 1919 and started working as an attorney in Gjerpen, where his father was district stipendiary magistrate. In 1921 he moved to Arendal to work as a lawyer. He became a Supreme Court lawyer in 1928.

From 1931 he had been a member of Arendal city council. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament during the term 1934–1936, representing the Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder counties. He met in parliamentary sessions whenever regular member Anton Alexander was unable to show. From 8 May 1945 to 1 December 1945 he was acting County Governor of Aust-Agder.