Nils Anker was a Norwegian politician.

He was a son of politician Peter Martin Anker

Peter Martin Anker (politician)

Peter Martin Anker was a Norwegian politician.He was a son of wholesaler Niels Anker . He was also a third cousin of Karen Anker, Johan Caspar Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg's wife. Together with Thrine Gløersen he had the children Nils Anker, Herman Anker, Christian August Anker and Dikka Møller...

. He was a brother of Herman Anker, Christian August Anker and Dikka Møller, uncle of Katti Anker Møller

Katti Anker Møller

Katti Anker Møller was a Norwegian feminist, children's rights advocate, and a pioneer of reproductive rights. She is known to posterity as the "advocate of mothers."...

, Ella Anker

Ella Anker

Eli Birgit "Ella" Anker was a Norwegian magazine journalist, newspaper correspondent, playwright and pamphleteer.-Personal life:...

 and Johan Anker

Johan Anker

Johan August Anker was a Norwegian sailor and yacht designer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, in the 1912 Summer Olympics, and in the 1928 Summer Olympics....

 and granduncle of Øyvind Anker

Øyvind Anker

-Personal life:He was born in Frankfurt am Main as a son of engineer Nils Botvid Anker and artist and pianist Gudrun Nilssen . He grew up in Vestre Aker and Lillehammer. He was a brother of Synnøve Anker Aurdal, and through her a brother-in-law of Ludvig Eikaas. Through another sister Ella he was...

, Synnøve Anker Aurdal, Peter Martin Anker

Peter Martin Anker (diplomat)

Peter Martin Anker was a Norwegian diplomat. He worked for the League of Nations, Red Cross and United Nations before, during and after the Second World War. He was then an ambassador in different European, Asian and African countries from 1951 to 1973...

 and Tove Mohr.

He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1885

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1885

A parliamentary election was held in Norway in 1885. A second party, the Conservative Party had also been formed by this election, but the Liberal Party received the most votes, and could continue their government led by Johan Sverdrup.-Results:-References:*...

, 1888

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1888

A parliamentary election was held in Norway in 1888. A third party, the Moderate Liberal Party had before this election split from the Liberal Party, which halved the strength of the former majority party. This led to the Conservative Party gaining the most MPs out of the three, thus being able to...

 and 1891

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1891

-Results:-References:*...

. He represented the constituency Fredrikshald

Halden

is a both a town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The seat of the municipality, Halden is a border town located at the Tista river delta on the Iddefjord, the southernmost border crossing between Norway and Sweden.-History:...

 and 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...

, and made his living as a wholesaler and landowner.