Baard Madsen Haugland


Baard Madsen Haugland was a Norwegian merchant and politician with the Liberal Party.

Biography

He was born at the Haugland farm at Stord in Hordaland, Norway. Haugland was a merchant by profession
and worked in the trade business in Bergen from 1851 until 1884.
Haugland was mayor of Stord from 1864. In 1870, he entered the Norwegian Parliament as a representative of Søndre Bergenhus amt. He was Minister of Finance 1884-1888 and member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1888-1889 and 1895-1896 under Prime Minister Johan Sverdrup.
Haugland was made a member of the Order of St. Olav in 1886 and received the Commander's Cross 1st class in 1895.
He was also made a commander of the Order of the Polar Star. He died in Stockholm during the spring of 1896 and was buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund in Oslo.