Egil Endresen
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Egil Endresen was a Norwegian judge 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 Stavanger
Stavanger
Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

 as a son of Gustav Adolf Emil Endresen (1882–1955) and Alida Anda (1883–1974). He took his examen artium
Examen artium
Examen artium was the name of the academic certification conferred in Denmark and Norway, qualifying the student for admission to university studies. Examen artium was originally introduced as the entrance exam of the University of Copenhagen in 1630...

 1940, commerce school in 1941 and also took military training as a Captain. He studied law at the University of Oslo
University of Oslo
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, 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
Supreme Court of Norway
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 cases. From 1962 to 1965 he worked with tourism in Rogaland
Rogaland
is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. It is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry, and as a result of this, Rogaland has the lowest unemployment rate of any county in Norway, 1.1%...

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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
Rogaland
is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. It is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry, and as a result of this, Rogaland has the lowest unemployment rate of any county in Norway, 1.1%...

 in 1965
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1965
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, and was re-elected on one occasion in 1969
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1969
The 1969 election proved to be one of the closest ones in Norwegian history. The only leftist party to win seats, the Labour Party, got 74 seats, while the right-wing parties got 76 seats. When counting the results, people started worrying that the two sides would be evenly split with 75 seats...

. His second term was cut short as he on 3 October 1970 was appointed Minister of Justice and the Police
Minister of Justice and the Police (Norway)
In Norway, the Minister of Justice and the Police is the head of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police and a member of Government of Norway. Current minister is Grete Faremo of the Norwegian Labour Party who is part of the second cabinet Stoltenberg...

 during the centre-right Borten's Cabinet, replacing Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer
Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer
Ragnhild Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Conservative Party.-Personal life:...

. He held the position until Borten's Cabinet fell in 1971. Olle Johan Eriksen
Olle Johan Eriksen
Olle Johan Eriksen was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Haugesund.Eriksen, who belonged to Rogaland, was never elected directly to the Norwegian Parliament but served as a deputy representative in the periods 1969–1973 and 1973–1977...

 took his seat in Parliament from 1970 to 1971. Endresen finished his second term in 1973, and was a member of the Standing Committee on Justice
Standing Committee on Justice
The Standing Committee on Justice is a standing committee of the Parliament of Norway. It is responsible for policies relating to judicial system, the probation service, the police, persons performing civilian national service, other judicial issues, ex gratia payments, general legislation...

 in both terms.

From 1972 to 1977 Endresen served as the district stipendiary magistrate of Holt. He then served as a Supreme Court
Supreme Court of Norway
The Supreme Court of Norway was established in 1815 on the basis of the Constitution of Norway's §88, prescribing an independent judiciary. It is located in Oslo and is Norway's highest court...

 Justice from 1977 to 1988.

He was decorated as a Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1987. His son Clement Endresen
Clement Endresen
Clement Endresen is a Norwegian judge.He was born in Stavanger as the son of politician and judge Egil Endresen. He graduated as cand.jur. from the University of Oslo in 1974, and then worked as lector there from 1975 to 1977...

became a Supreme Court Justice too.
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