title: Olaj Olsen
text: Olaj Johan Olsen (6 April 1851 – 16 June 1920) was a Norwegian jurist and politician.
  
  He made a career as a civil servant in various government ministries. He was later promoted to serve as Minister of Justice and the Police and Minister of Finance and Customs in 1888 and 1889, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm from 1896 to 1897 and Minister of the Interior from 1897 to 1898.
  
  He was also County Governor of Nordre Bergenhus amt from 1889. In 1902 he left this post to become burgomaster of his hometown Bergen.
  
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  1851 births
  1920 deaths
  Government ministers of Norway
  Politicians from Bergen
  County governors of Norway
  Ministers of Finance of Norway
  Ministers of Justice of Norway