Peder Hansen (politician)
Peder Hansen was a Norwegian politician for the Moderate Liberal Party.
He was born at Hage in Fuse as a son of farmers Hans Johannesen Hage and Gurine Nilsdatter. He started his professional career as a smith at the shipyard Laksevaag maskin- og jernskibsbyggeri in 1877. In 1894 he advanced to foreman. From 1904 to 1911 he lived as a merchant in Kristiania, but in 1911 he settled as a farmer.
He was a member of Askøen municipal council, and also served as an elector while Norway had such a political system. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1900. He served one term for the constituency of Søndre Bergenhus Amt before being a deputy representative during the term 1904–1906.
Together with Hedvig Johannesen he had the daughter Ella Hage Hanssen, a painter who married zoologist and oceanographer Albert Eide Parr, a son of scholar Thomas Johannes Lauritz Parr.
