Name Baard Haugland Role Politician | Died 1896 | |
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Baard Madsen Haugland (12 January 1835 – 7 May 1896) was a Norwegian merchant and politician with the Liberal Party.
He was born at the Haugland farm at Stord (Haugland på Stord) in Hordaland, Norway. Haugland was a merchant by profession before entering into politics as mayor of Bergen.
In 1870, he entered the Norwegian Parliament as a representative of Søndre Bergenhus amt (now Hordaland). He was Minister of Finance 1884-1888 and member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1888-1889 and 1895-1896 under Prime Minister Johan Sverdrup.
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