Christofer Olivius Ferslew (12 July 1874 – 23 January 1940) was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 jurist and politician for the Conservative Party

Conservative Party of Norway

The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...

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He was born in Skien

Skien

' is a city and municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Skien. Skien is also the administrative centre of Telemark county....

 as a son of attorney Gustav Marius Larsen (1844–1927) and his wife Caspara Elisabeth Cathrine Torstenson (1843–1927). He finished his secondary education in 1893, and graduated from university with the cand.jur. degree in 1899. He was a deputy judge in Skien for three months in 1899, then in Gjerpen

Gjerpen

Gjerpen is a former township which is now part of the municipality of Skien, in Telemark county, Norway.-Location:The parish of Gjerpen was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 . According to the 1835 census the municipality had a population of 4,381. Gjerpen was located east of the city...

 from 1899 to 1901. He was an attorney in Skien from 1902 to 1929, stipendiary magistrate in Ålesund

Ålesund

is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre, and the center of the Ålesund Region. It is a sea port, and is noted for its unique concentration of Art Nouveau architecture....

 from 1929 to 1937, and district stipendiary magistrate in Larvik from 1937 to his death.

He was a member of Skien city council from 1910 to 1913 and 1916 to 1922. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1927

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1927

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, serving the term 1928–1930 for the Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder counties

Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder counties

The Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder counties was an electoral district for parliamentary elections in Norway. It comprised the market towns of Brevik, Kragerø, Notodden, Porsgrunn and Skien in Telemark county and Arendal, Grimstad and Risør in Aust-Agder county.The district was...

. Ferslew also held posts in the Norwegian Bar Association

Norwegian Bar Association

The Norwegian Bar Association is an association of Norwegian lawyers. It was established in 1908 as , and assumed its current name from 1965. As of 2008 the association had about 7,000 members. Among its publications are the journals Norsk Retstidende and Rettens Gang....

, the Norwegian Mountain Touring Association

Norwegian Mountain Touring Association

The Norwegian Trekking Association is a Norwegian association which maintains mountain trails and cabins in Norway. The association was founded on 21 January 1868 with the scope "to help and develop tourism in this country". Today the goal is to work for simple, secure and environmentally friendly...

 and the Norwegian Association of Hunters and Anglers. He became an honorary member of the latter, in both Skien and Ålesund.