Løvland's Cabinet

Løvland's cabinet was the government of Norway between 23 October 1907 and 19 March 1908. The cabinet was led by Prime Minister Jørgen Løvland of the Liberal Party and consisted of nine ministers, mostly from the Liberal Party, one from the Moderate Liberal Party and two independents. During the State Council on 14 March 1908, Prime Minister Løvland asked to resign after cabinet had got a negative majority against it for the debate on the speech of the Throne. The resignation was accepted by King Haakon VII during the State Council on 18 March and took effect the day after at 10:30am. The first cabinet of Gunnar Knudsen was then appointed with immediate effect at the same time stamp.[1]

Løvland's Cabinet

Cabinet of Norway
Date formed23 October 1907
Date dissolved19 March 1908
People and organisations
Head of stateHaakon VII of Norway
Head of governmentJørgen Løvland
No. of ministers9
Member partyLiberal Party
Moderate Liberal Party
Status in legislatureMajority
History
PredecessorMichelsen's Cabinet
SuccessorKnudsen's First Cabinet

Cabinet members

The cabinet was intact through Løvland's entire term. Three ministers, Arctander, Aarrestad and Brunchorst, were retained from Michelsen's cabinet.

PortfolioMinisterTook officeLeft officeParty
Prime Minister
Minister of Foreign Affairs		 Jørgen Løvland23 October 190719 March 1908Liberal
Minister of Justice and the Police Johan Bredal23 October 190719 March 1908Independent
Minister of Finance and Customs Magnus Halvorsen23 October 190719 March 1908Moderate Liberal
Minister of Defence Karl F. Griffin Dawes23 October 190719 March 1908Liberal
Minister of Agriculture
Minister of Auditing		 Sven Aarrestad23 October 190719 March 1908Liberal
Minister of Education and Church Affairs Abraham Berge23 October 190719 March 1908Liberal
Minister of Trade Sofus Arctander23 October 190719 March 1908Liberal
Minister of Labour Jørgen Brunchorst23 October 190719 March 1908Independent
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gollark: The purpose written down somewhere doesn't really matter if people with different preferences try and shape it in their way, or if it doesn't actually work well at satisfying that purpose.
gollark: There are those who'd say it should be to punish criminals, or who say it's just the state enforcing its power.
gollark: Also, I don't think people agree on that being the point.
gollark: It can't be effective at that if people can just work around *it* when they want to.

References
  1. "Jørgen Løvland's Cabinet" (in Norwegian). 9 May 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
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