Edvard Hagerup Bull (23 January 1855 – 25 March 1938) was a Norwegian jurist and assessor of the

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. He was a member of the

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and government official with the

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Background

Edvard Hagerup Bull was born in

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as the son of

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Jens Munthe Bull (1815–1905) and his wife Johanne Margrethe Hagerup (1817–1888).Edvard Hagerup Bull
– Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) His brother Schak Bull (1858 – 1956) was an architect, and his maternal grandfather was politician Edvard Hagerup. He was also a nephew of composer Ole Bull and architect

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, and cousin of composer

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. He had his secondary education at Bergen Cathedral School during 1872, enrolled as a student and graduated with the degree cand.jur. in 1876. He was hired as an attorney for the law company of

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, and worked there from 1877 to 1879.

Career

During July 1879 he was hired by the

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, transferring to the

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the next year. Here, he was promoted to assistant secretary in 1882 and deputy under-secretary of State in 1888. He had been acting deputy under-secretary since 1887. He had this job until 1893, except for the period between 6 June 1889 and 7 July 1889, when he was acting

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. During October 1893 he became acting assessor of the Supreme Court. In January 1895 this position was made permanent. He had this job until January 1918, except for a period between 1905 and February 1907. During March 1905, when the

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assumed office, Bull had been appointed a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm. He left on 6 June as the

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was dissolved unilaterally by Norway. Instead, Bull was brought home to the newly independent state of Norway to become

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. He had this job until 26 November the same year, when he was appointed Minister of Finance and Customs. He quit after slightly less than a year, on 6 November 1906. He was preceded by

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and succeeded by Abraham Berge,Ministry of Finance. Councillor of State 1814–present
— Government.no both of whom were

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at one point. Having quit the Supreme Court during 1918, he later resumed politics to serve as Minister of Finance and Customs in the first cabinet Bahr Halvorsen. This cabinet existed exactly for one year, from 21 June 1920 to 21 June 1921. Again, he was preceded and succeeded by two persons who also served as Prime Ministers, Gunnar Knudsen and

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respectively. Additionally, Bull was elected to the Norwegian Parliament for four terms. In

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he was elected to serve the term 1904–1906 as the fifth representative of Akershus Amt. He was not re-elected in

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, but he returned in 1910 for the constituency of Aker. He was then re-elected on two consecutive occasions. For the last three terms he was the manager of the Conservative Party parliamentary group. Bull was a member of several boards and committees, both public and private. He was chairman of the board of Spareskillingsbanken from 1899 to 1928, vice board chairman of

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from 1900 to 1912 and board member of the publishing house Gyldendal Norsk Forlag from 1922. Additionally, was the first chairman of the Nordic cooperation organization

Foreningen Norden Foreningen Norden (Norwegian and Danish), Föreningen Norden (Swedish), Norræna félagið (Icelandic), Norrøna Felagið (Faroese), Peqatigiiffik Nunat Avannarliit (Greenlandic) and Pohjola-Norden (Finnish), ''The Norden Associations'', sometimes ...

from 1919 to 1926.

Personal life

During June 1880 he married Theodora Kraft (1855–1924). Both their son Sverre Hagerup Bull and their grandson Edvard Hagerup Bull became composers. Their daughter Johanne Margrethe Hagerup Bull was married to Norwegian diplomat Niels Christian Ditleff. He resided in the neighborhood of

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in his later life.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bull, Edvard Hagerup 1855 births 1938 deaths Supreme Court of Norway justices Government ministers of Norway Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Politicians from Aker University of Oslo faculty Civil servants from Bergen Lawyers from Bergen Ministers of Finance of Norway People educated at the Bergen Cathedral School Ministers of Justice of Norway