Baard Madsen Haugland (12 January 1835 – 7 May 1896) was a Norwegian merchant and politician with the Liberal Party.
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Biography
He was born at the Haugland farm at Stord (Haugland på Stord) in Hordaland, Norway. Haugland was a merchant by profession
and worked in the trade business in Bergen from 1851 until 1884.
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Haugland was mayor (ordførar) of Stord from 1864. In 1870, he entered the Norwegian Parliament as a representative of Søndre Bergenhus amt (now Hordaland). He was Minister of Finance 1884-1888 and member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1888-1889 and 1895-1896 under Prime Minister Johan Sverdrup.[4][5]