Thorvald Andreas Larsen (27 September 1863–16 January 1936) was a Norwegian lawyer, police chief, banker, civil servant, and politician. He was born in

Sandnes Sandnes () is a city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway. It lies immediately south of Stavanger, the 4th largest city in Norway and together, the Stavanger/Sandnes area is the third-largest urban area in Norway. The urban city of Sandnes lies ...

as a son of merchant and magistrate Andreas Larsen and his wife Charlotte Marie Sandved. He

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his secondary education in 1881, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1886. He started as a lawyer, and in 1892 he became a barrister with access to working with cases at the Supreme Court. In 1898, he was appointed as Stavanger's chief of police and also director of Stavanger Handels- og Industribank. He was a member of Stavanger city council from 1896 to 1904, and of the Stavanger school board from 1899 to 1904. He resigned in 1904 as he was appointed as

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of Stavanger, the position which is now called chief administrative officer. While serving as burgomaster he was elected as a deputy representative of the Parliament of Norway from the constituency of Holmen in the

1906 Norwegian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Norway between 5 and 27 August 1906, with a second round held between 26 August and 22 October. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 It was the first parliamen ...

. He served one term through 1909. He went on to become County Governor of Stavanger amt in 1910. He held that position until 1932. He died in 1936 and was buried at Eiganes.

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1863 births 1936 deaths People from Sandnes 19th-century Norwegian lawyers Norwegian police chiefs Norwegian bankers Norwegian civil servants Politicians from Stavanger Coalition Party (Norway) politicians Deputy members of the Storting County governors of Norway {{Norway-politician-1860s-stub