Jens Gram (21 July 1897 – 1982) was a Norwegian barrister and politician.

Personal life

He was born in

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as a son of chemist

Johan Fredrik Gram Johan Fredrik Gram (14 April 1868 – 27 December 1947) was a Norwegian chemist. Personal life He was born in Drammen as a son of Jens Gram. He was a brother of Mads Gram, a maternal grandson of P. A. Munch and a paternal great-grandson of Jens J ...

(1868–1947) and Elisabeth Cappe Schram (1872–1943). He was a nephew of Irma and

Mads Gram Harald Mathias "Mads" Gram (6 February 1875 – 1929) was a Norwegian physician. Personal life He was born in Drammen as the son of Jens Gram. He was a brother of Johan Fredrik Gram, a maternal grandson of P. A. Munch and a paternal great-grandson ...

, paternal grandson of

Jens Gram Jens Gram (15 November 1840 – 22 January 1912) was a Norwegian industrialist. Personal life He was born in Ask as a son of Johan Georg Boll Gram and Fredrikke Severine Mathea Stabell. He was a brother of Andrea Gram, grandson of Jens Jensen G ...

, grandnephew of Andrea Gram and great-great-grandson of

Jens Jensen Gram Jens Jensen Gram (12 February 1779 – 2 November 1824) was a Norwegian jurist and politician. He was born in Copenhagen as the son of Jens Gram. He studied at the University of Copenhagen from 1798, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 180 ...

. In 1928 he married Antonie Due Lysholm, a daughter of physician

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(1861–1939) and Barbara Anker Bachke (1867–1939).

Career

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his secondary education in 1915, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the

cand.jur. Candidate of Law (Latin: ''candidatus/candidata juris/iuris'') is both a graduate law degree awarded to law students in the Nordic region as well as an academic status designation for advanced Law School students in German-speaking countries. ...

degree in 1919. He was a deputy judge in

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in 1920, magistrate clerk in Kristiania from 1920 to 1922 and then studied in Paris for a year before becoming municipal secretary again. After two years as junior solicitor from 1924 to 1926, he started his own law firm in 1926. He partnered up with Ingar Skavlan and Chr. Blom from 1928, and the firm was later named ''Blom, Gram og Borch'' before Gram started on his own again in 1954. From 1926 to 1946 he was the secretary of the Norges Huseierforbund, also editing their magazine ''Huseieren'' until 1940. He was the vice president of the

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from 1943 to 1950 (board member since 1931), chaired

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from 1953 to 1961 (board member since 1947) and the Oslo branch of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments until 1970. He was a member of Oslo city council from 1948 to 1952, and also a member of several public committees. He was a supervisory member of Livsforsikringsselskapet Brage-Fram and

Forsikringsselskapet Norden Forsikringsselskapet Norden was a general insurance company based in Norway. It was founded as ''Brandforsikringsselskabet Norden'' on 4 April 1867, and began operating on 2 September the same year. Its first offices were located in ''Karl Johans ...

. He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the

Order of the Dannebrog The Order of the Dannebrog ( da, Dannebrogordenen) is a Danish order of chivalry instituted in 1671 by Christian V. Until 1808, membership in the order was limited to fifty members of noble or royal rank, who formed a single class known a ...

and Knight of the Order of the Polar Star. He died in 1982.

References

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