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Rudolf Elias Peersen (1868-1949) var en norsk jurist og politiker. Han var Norges forsvarsminister i 1919 og stortingsrepresentant i flere perioder. Etter juridisk embedseksamen i 1892 var han ansatt som Venstres første landssekretær på heltid mars 1893 – desember 1894. Peersen var overrettssakfører i Kristiansand fra 1894 og høyesterettsadvokat fra 1912. Foruten offentlig forsvarer i meddomsretten var han sekretær for Kristiansands ligningsvesen 1895–1912 og sakfører for blant annet Norges Bank. I 1916 ble han byfogd i Kristiansand. Peersen var bystyremedlem i Kristiansand i flere perioder. Han var byens ordfører i årene 1938–1940 og fra frigjøringen i 1945. (kilde: Wikipedia)
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Rudolf Elias Peersen (1868-1949) was a Norwegian jurist and politician. He was Norway's Minister of Defence in 1919 and a Member of Parliament for several terms. After obtaining his law degree in 1892, he was employed as the Liberal Party's first full-time national secretary from March 1893 to December 1894. Peersen was a barrister in Kristiansand from 1894 and a Supreme Court lawyer from 1912. In addition to being a public defender in the district court, he was the secretary for Kristiansand's tax administration from 1895 to 1912 and a lawyer for, among others, Norges Bank. In 1916, he became the city judge in Kristiansand. Peersen was a member of the Kristiansand city council for several terms. He was the city's mayor from 1938 to 1940 and again from the liberation in 1945. (Source: Wikipedia)