Johan SVERDRUP

1816 - 1892  (75 years)

• Name	Johan SVERDRUP
  Birth	30 Jul 1816	Jarlsberg Sems, Vestfold, Norway
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Lawyer, Norwegian Prime Minister
  Death	17 Feb 1892	Oslo, Norway
  Notes	Johan Sverdrup Born: 30-Jul-1816 Birthplace: Jarlsberg, Norway Died: 17-Feb-1892 Location of death: Oslo, Norway Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Male Ethnicity: White Occupation: Head of State Nationality: Norway Executive summary: Norwegian Prime Minister, 1884–89 Norwegian statesman, born at Jarlsberg on the 30th of July 1816. His father, Jakob Sverdrup, was a land steward, and the founder of the first school of agriculture in Norway. Johan entered the Storting in 1850, sitting first for Laurvik, and then for the district of Akershus, and was its president from 1871 to 1884, during the whole of the dispute over the prerogative of the Crown. He built up a strong political party, which, relying for support chiefly on the Norwegian peasantry, was determined to secure strict constitutional government and practically to destroy the power of the king. Under his leadership the opposition, in 1872, secured the passing of a bill for the admission of the ministers to the Storting, which was a step to the establishment of the dependence of the cabinet on a majority in that assembly. King Charles XV refused his sanction to this bill, and on its third passing in 1880 Oscar II opposed his veto, at the same time claiming his right to the absolute veto. Sverdrup then proposed the proclamation of the law in defiance of the king's action. The retirement of Frederik Stang removed Sverdrup's chief political opponent from the field. He was aided in his campaign by Björnstjerne Björnson, and after a series of political crises he became prime minister in June 1884. But when he became prime minister he soon found himself at issue with Björnson on church matters. Inspired chiefly by his nephew Johan he secured the refusal of a pension to the novelist Kielland because of his anti-clerical views, and he further wished to give the parish councils the right to strike off the voting list persons who had broken away from church discipline. Therefore, although during his term of office no fewer than eighty-nine measures, many of them involving useful reforms, became law, he failed to satisfy the extremists among his supporters, and was driven to rely on the moderate Liberals. He was compelled to retire in 1889, and died on the 17th of February 1892 at Christiania (now Oslo.)
  Person ID	I7181	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	19 Jul 2007

  
  

  Father	Jacob Liv Borch SVERDRUP,   b. 8 Feb 1775, Norway d. 15 May 1841, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Jean Gundelle Birgitte SCHANCH,   b. 1 Feb 1780, Norway d. 22 Dec 1820, Jarlsberg Sems, Vestfold, Norway (Age 40 years)
  Marriage	19 Aug 1802
  Family ID	F5492	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Caroline Louise Gundelle SØRENSEN,   b. 18 Oct 1819, Copenhagen, Denmark d. 18 Jan 1883, Nordal, Østre Aker, Oslo, Akershus, Norway (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	14 Oct 1844	Brunlanes, Vestfold, Norway
  Children	1. Margrethe Petronelle SVERDRUP,   b. 26 Jul 1845, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway d. 2 Sep 1908, Oslo, Norway (Age 63 years)   2. Jacob Liv Borch SVERDRUP,   b. 25 Sep 1850, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway d. 20 Jul 1910, Oslo, Norway (Age 59 years)   3. Georg SVERDRUP,   b. 7 Jan 1852, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway d. 15 Jul 1904, Kragerø, Telemark, Norway (Age 52 years)   4. Anton Edvard SVERDRUP,   b. 3 Jul 1862, Vestre Aker, Oslo, Norway d. 6 Jan 1917, Oslo, Norway (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F5498	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jul 2007