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Otto Bahr Halvorsen

14th Prime Minister of Norway (1872–1923)

Summary

14th Prime Minister of Norway (1872–1923)

Field	Value
name	Otto Bahr Halvorsen
office	Prime Minister of Norway
image	File:Otto Bahr Halvorsen 1921.jpg
caption	Bahr Halvorsen in 1921.
termstart	21 June 1920
termend	22 June 1921
termstart2	6 March 1923
monarch	Haakon VII
monarch2	Haakon VII
preceded	Gunnar Knudsen
succeeded	Otto Blehr
preceded2	Otto Blehr
party	Conservative
birth_date
death_date
death_place	Christiania, Norway
birth_place	Christiania, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway
spouse
termend2	23 May 1923
succeeded2	Abraham Berge
office3	Minister of Justice
term_start3	21 June 1920
term_end3	22 June 1921
primeminister3	Himself
predecessor3	Otto Blehr
successor3	Olaf Amundsen
term_start4	6 March 1923
term_end4	23 May 1923
primeminister4	Himself
predecessor4	Arnold Holmboe
successor4	Christian L. Rolfsen
office5	Leader of the Conservative Party
term_start5	1919
term_end5	23 May 1923
predecessor5	Jens Bratlie
successor5	Ivar Lykke

Otto Bahr Halvorsen (28 May 1872 – 23 May 1923) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician from the Conservative Party, who served as the prime minister of Norway from 1920 to 1921 and again in 1923 up until his death in office.{{cite web

Background

Halvorsen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo, Norway) to Otto Hellen Halvorsen (1840–1921) and Karine Christine Christiansen (1847–1927). He attended Kristiania Cathedral School. He studied law at the University of Kristiania where he completed his examen artium in 1890. As a licensed attorney, in 1904 he opened a law firm in Kristiania.

Political career

In 1912 Halvorsen was first elected to the Storting from the neighborhood of Gamle Aker in the district of St. Hanshaugen in Kristiania. Halvorsen served Kristiania in the Parliament from the Conservative Party from 1913 to 1923. He became Prime Minister during 1920 while also serving as Minister of Justice. He again became Prime Minister in May 1923 while simultaneously serving as Minister of Justice. Between these terms, Halvorsen was leader of the Conservative Party in Parliament and President of the Storting (stortingspresident).{{cite web|url = https://snl.no/stortingspresident

Personal life

In 1899, he was married to Kathrine Hofgaard (1875–1960), daughter of Simon Wright Hofgaard and Ida Mathilde Aars.{{cite web

References

Rolf Danielsen [http://nbl.snl.no/Otto_B_Halvorsen Otto B Halvorsen] {{in lang. no [[Norsk biografisk leksikon]]. [[Store norske leksikon]]. Retrieved 11 April 2014
(30 May 2011). "Otto B. Halvorsen, Prime Minister 1920 - 1921 and 1923". Norwegian Government Administration Services.

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