Georg Jacob Bull
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Georg Jacob Bull 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.

He was a stipendiary magistrate (byfogd) of Bergen
Bergen
Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

 from 1810 to 1821. While stationed here, he was elected to the Norwegian Parliament for the year 1821. Bull was then appointed County Governor of Jarlsbergs og Laurvigs amt (today named Vestfold), serving from 1821 to 1829. Seated in Laurvik
Larvik
is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. Larvik kommune - has about 41 364 inhabitants and covers 530 km2....

, he was elected to the Norwegian Parliament for the year 1824, representing the constituency of Laurvik og Sandefjord.

In 1829 he went on to serve as County Governor of Søndre Bergenhus amt (today named Hordaland). He left in 1834. From 1834 to 1836 he served as state secretary. He was then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway is the judicial leader of the Supreme Court of Norway.The following is a chronological list of chief justices since the court was established:...

 from 1836 to his death in 1854.

Georg Jacob Bull was the father of later government minister Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bull
Anders Bull
Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bull was a Norwegian politician. He served as acting Minister of the Army in 1875 , 1881 and 1884. He also served as mayor of Oslo in 1877 and 1878.-Personal life:...

. His wife, and Anders' mother, was Barbara Albertine Ørsted, sister of Hans Christian Ørsted
Hans Christian Ørsted
Hans Christian Ørsted was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism...

 and Anders Sandøe Ørsted
Anders Sandøe Ørsted
Anders Sandøe Ørsted was a Danish politician and jurist. He served as the Prime Minister of Denmark in 1853-1854 as leader of the Cabinet of Ørsted....

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