monarch predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place imagesize nationality office birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name
karl iii johan baltzar von platen severin løvenskiold 27 august 1840 montpellier france wiesbaden , germany 200px norwegian governor of norway 21 september 1779 1836 karen anker johan caspar herman wedel-jarlsberg . jpg herman wedel jarlsberg
 1840 count wedel jarlsberg
herman wedel jarlsberg

johan caspar herman wedel jarlsberg -lrb- 21 september 1779 -- 27 august 1840 -rrb- was a politician and a norwegian count .
he played an active role in the constitutional assembly at eidsvoll in 1814 and was the first native norwegian to hold the post of governor -lrb- representing the absent king as head of the norwegian cabinet -rrb- during the union with sweden .
