Jens Haugland (16 April 1910 – 2 May 1991) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the
Labour Party.
Haugland was born at
Bjelland
Bjelland is a village in Lindesnes municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located along the river Mandalselva, about southeast of the village of Byremo (in Lyngdal) and about west of the village of Hægeland (in Vennesla). The vil ...
in
Vest-Agder
Vest-Agder (; "West Agder") was one of 18 counties (''fylker'') in Norway up until 1 January 2020, when it was merged with Aust-Agder to form Agder county. In 2016, there were 182,701 inhabitants, around 3.5% of the total population of Norway. I ...
, Norway. He studied law at the
University of Oslo
The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...
and graduated as
cand.jur. in 1936. He worked as a jurist in
Stavanger and
Kristiansand
Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporati ...
and was district stipendiary magistrate (''sorenskriver'') of
Setesdal
Setesdal (; older name: Sætersdal) is a valley and a traditional district in Agder County in southern Norway. It consists of the municipalities of Bykle, Valle, Bygland, Iveland, and Evje og Hornnes.
The Otra river flows through the ...
. He was a member of the executive committee of
Kristiansand
Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporati ...
city council from 1945 to 1954.
He was elected to the
Norwegian Parliament
The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ...
from
Vest-Agder
Vest-Agder (; "West Agder") was one of 18 counties (''fylker'') in Norway up until 1 January 2020, when it was merged with Aust-Agder to form Agder county. In 2016, there were 182,701 inhabitants, around 3.5% of the total population of Norway. I ...
in 1954, and was re-elected on four occasions. From November 1955 to August 1963, during the
third cabinet Gerhardsen
Gerhardsen's Third Cabinet was the cabinet of Norway from 22 January 1955 to 28 August 1963. The government was led by Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen
Einar Henry Gerhardsen (; 10 May 1897 – 19 September 1987) was a Norwegian politician from t ...
, Haugland was
Norwegian Minister of Justice and the Police. During the
fourth cabinet Gerhardsen
Gerhardsen's Fourth Cabinet governed Norway between 25 September 1963 and 12 October 1965. The Labour Party cabinet was led by Einar Gerhardsen
Einar Henry Gerhardsen (; 10 May 1897 – 19 September 1987) was a Norwegian politician from the Lab ...
from September 1963 to 1965, he was
Norwegian Minister of Local Government and Labour. During this period his seat in parliament was taken by
Trygve Hanssen,
Salve Andreas Salvesen and
Olav Tonning Munkejord.
Later he was a
Supreme Court judge based out of Bjelland from 1980 to 1991. He was chairman of the Norwegian Committee on Greece from 1968 to 1970, and was a board member of
Noregs Mållag
Noregs Mållag (literally "Language Organisation of Norway") is the main organisation for Norwegian Nynorsk (New Norwegian), one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language. In the Norwegian language conflict, it advocates the ...
from 1975 to 1977. He was a columnist in ''
Sørlandet'' and ''
Fædrelandsvennen
''Fædrelandsvennen'' is a regional newspaper based in Kristiansand, Norway. It covers the southernmost part of the country, ( Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder), focusing especially on the area between Mandal and Lillesand (west and east of Kristians ...
'', and published a number of books.
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1910 births
1991 deaths
Politicians from Kristiansand
University of Oslo alumni
Norwegian jurists
Norwegian diarists
Norwegian columnists
Vest-Agder politicians
Government ministers of Norway
Ministers of Local Government and Modernisation of Norway
Members of the Storting
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
20th-century Norwegian writers
20th-century Norwegian politicians
Ministers of Justice of Norway
20th-century diarists
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