Christian Wegner Haaland (6 February 1892–1952) is a Norwegian ship-owner 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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Haaland started his own shipping company in 1914. From 1937 to 1940 he was the president of the Norwegian Shipowners' Association

Norwegian Shipowners' Association

The Norwegian Shipowners Association is an employers' organization and interest group for Norwegian shipping and offshore companies. The organization's primary fields are national and international industry policies, employer issues, competence and recruitment, environmental issues and innovation...

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He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from the Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties

Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties

The Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties was an electoral district for parliamentary elections in Norway. It comprised the market towns of Flekkefjord, Kristiansand and Mandal in Vest-Agder county and Haugesund and Stavanger in Rogaland county....

 during the term 1945–1949. On the local level he was the mayor of his birth town Haugesund

Haugesund

is a town and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.-Location:Haugesund was separated from Torvastad as a town and municipality of its own in 1855. The rural municipality of Skåre was merged with Haugesund on January 1, 1958. Haugesund is a small municipality, only 73 km²...

in 1925, 1928–1931 and 1945.