Egil Endresen
Norwegian politician (1920–1992)
Egil Endresen (28 April 1920 – 10 May 1992) was a Norwegian judge and politician for the Conservative Party.
He was born in Stavanger as a son of Gustav Adolf Emil Endresen (1882–1955) and Alida Anda (1883–1974). He took his examen artium 1940, commerce school in 1941 and also took military training as a captain. He studied law at the University of Oslo, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1947. He worked as a secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police from 1947 to 1948, then as a deputy judge in Ryfylke District Court in and Jæren District Court from 1949 to 1950. He was an attorney in Stavanger from 1950 to 1963, from 1960 a barrister with access to work with Supreme Court cases. From 1962 to 1965 he worked with tourism in Rogaland.
Endresen was a member of the executive committee of Stavanger city council from 1955 to 1963. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Rogaland in 1965, and was re-elected on one occasion in 1969.
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