Oscar Christian Gundersen

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Oscar Christian "O.C." Gundersen (born 17 March 1908 in Oslo, died 21 February 1991) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

Gundersen graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1931. During the second cabinet Gerhardsen he was appointed Minister of Justice and the Police, a post he a year into the new cabinet Torp. He left in 1952 and became a Supreme Court judge the next year. In 1958 he left that position to become Norwegian ambassador to the Soviet Union, a post he held until 1961.

He was then appointed Minister of Trade and Shipping from 1962 to 1963 during the third cabinet Gerhardsen. In August 1963 the cabinet Lyng assumed office, but a fourth cabinet Gerhardsen returned to power a month later. Gundersen was now Minister of Justice and the Police again, a post he held until the fourth cabinet Gerhardsen fell in 1965. He worked as a Supreme Court judge for the second time, from 1967 to 1977.

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• Oscar Christian Gundersen biography at Stortinget.no (Norwegian)

Preceded by Johan Cappelen	Norwegian Minister of Justice and the Police 1945–1952	Succeeded by Kai Knudsen
Preceded by Arne Skaug	Norwegian Minister of Trade and Shipping 1962–1963	Succeeded by Kåre Willoch
Preceded by Petter Mørch Koren	Norwegian Minister of Justice and the Police 1963–1965	Succeeded by Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer