Karl Amundsen
Karl Amundsen (10 November 1873 – 13 June 1961) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour and Communist parties. He was born at Sjøndem in Brandval as a son of Amund Johannesen and Karen Hansdatter. He took carpenter education in Kristiania, and worked as such until 1911. He moved to Løiten and was the manager of the district welfare fund there from 1911. He chaired the county branch of the Labour Party, and was elected to the executive committee of Løiten municipal council. He was then elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1912 from the constituency ''Søndre Hedemarken''. He was a member of the Standing Committee on Customs. In the 1915 election he won the first round of voting with 3,746 votes, but not by a large enough margin ahead of the runner-up. In the second round he faced the first round's loser, the independent candidate Karl Wilhelm Wefring, but lost with 4,379 votes against Wefring's 4,886. In the 1921 election he was a minor ballot candidate. In the 1924 e ...
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Karl Amundsen
Karl Amundsen (10 November 1873 – 13 June 1961) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour and Communist parties. He was born at Sjøndem in Brandval as a son of Amund Johannesen and Karen Hansdatter. He took carpenter education in Kristiania, and worked as such until 1911. He moved to Løiten and was the manager of the district welfare fund there from 1911. He chaired the county branch of the Labour Party, and was elected to the executive committee of Løiten municipal council. He was then elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1912 from the constituency ''Søndre Hedemarken''. He was a member of the Standing Committee on Customs. In the 1915 election he won the first round of voting with 3,746 votes, but not by a large enough margin ahead of the runner-up. In the second round he faced the first round's loser, the independent candidate Karl Wilhelm Wefring, but lost with 4,379 votes against Wefring's 4,886. In the 1921 election he was a minor ballot candidate. In the 1924 e ...
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1921 Norwegian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 24 October 1921.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 This was the first election to use proportional representation, which replaced previous two-round system.John G. Grumm (1958"Theories of Electoral Systems" ''Midwest Journal of Political Science'', volume 2, number 4, pp357–376 The result was a victory for the Conservative Party-Free-minded Liberal Party alliance, which won 57 of the 150 seats in the Storting. Results Seat distribution References {{Norwegian elections General elections in Norway 1920s elections in Norway Norway Parliamentary Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of ...

Members Of The Storting
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Hedmark Politicians
Hedmark () was a county in Norway before 1 January 2020, bordering Trøndelag to the north, Oppland to the west, Akershus to the south, and Sweden to the east. The county administration is in Hamar. Hedmark and Oppland counties were merged into Innlandet county on 1 January 2020, when Norway's former 19 counties became 10 bigger counties / regions Hedmark made up the northeastern part of Østlandet, the southeastern part of the country. It had a long border with Sweden to the east (Dalarna County and Värmland County). The largest lakes were Femunden and Mjøsa, the largest lake in Norway. Parts of Glomma, Norway's longest river, flowed through Hedmark. Geographically, Hedmark was traditionally divided into: Hedemarken (east of the lake Mjøsa), Østerdalen ("East Valley" north of the town Elverum), and Solør / Glåmdalen (south of Elverum) and Odal in the very south. Hedmark and Oppland were the only Norwegian counties with no coastline. Hedmark also hosted some event ...
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People From Løten
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1961 Deaths
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Finnair, Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the Captain (civil aviation), captain and First officer (civil aviation), first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 Turkish coup d'état, 1960 ...
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1873 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar. ** The California Penal Code goes into effect. * January 17 – American Indian Wars: Modoc War: First Battle of the Stronghold – Modoc Indians defeat the United States Army. * February 11 – The Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I, and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. * February 12 ** Emilio Castelar, the former foreign minister, becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic. ** The Coinage Act of 1873 in the United States is signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant; coming into effect on April 1, it ends bimetallism in the U.S., and places the country on the gold standard. * February 20 ** The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco. ** British naval officer John Moresby discovers the site of Port Moresby, and claims the land for Britain. * March 3 – Censorship: The United States Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it ...
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Hamar Arbeiderblad
''Hamar Arbeiderblad'' (often referred to locally as "HA") is local newspaper published in Hamar, Norway by Hamar Media. The paper is edited by Carsten Bleness. HA was one of the first newspapers to place the internet edition of a newspaper behind a paywall. Access to the internet edition is free for annual subscribers to the print edition. Access to the internet edition costs the same as the print edition. History The first edition of ''Hamar Arbeiderblad'' was published on 30 March 1925 with a print run of 1200 copies. Local branches of the Labour Party in Hamar, Vang, Stange, Romedal, Løten, Ringsaker and Nes were behind the founding of the newspaper. It was considered that Hamar and the surrounding areas needed their own newspaper. The paper's first editor was Nils Hønsvald. The paper got its own printing press in 1927. The paper was originally distributed to municipalities around Hedmarken. In 1932 distribution was extended to include Østerdalen. The paper is now the ...
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Arbeideren (Hamar)
''Arbeideren'' ("The Worker") was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Hamar, Hedmark county. It was started in 1909 as the press organ of the Labour Party (Norway), Labour Party in Hedemarken and its adjoining regions, and was called ''Demokraten'' ("The Democrat") until 1923. It was issued three days a week between 1909 and 1913, six days a week in 1914, three days a week again between 1914 and 1918 before again increasing to six days a week. It was renamed to ''Arbeideren'' in 1923, and in the same year it was taken over by the Communist Party of Norway, Norwegian Communist Party. The Communist Party incorporated the newspaper ''Gudbrandsdalens Arbeiderblad'' into ''Arbeideren'' in 1924, and until 1929 the newspaper was published under the name ''Arbeideren og Gudbrandsdalens Arbeiderblad''. After ''Arbeideren'' had gone defunct, the name was used by the Communist Party for other newspapers elsewhere. The chief editors of the newspaper were Olav Kringen (1909–1913), Ole Hol ...
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1924 Norwegian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 21 October 1924. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 The result was a victory for the Conservative Party-Liberal Left Party alliance, which won 54 of the 150 seats in the Storting. To date, this is the last election in which the Labour Party did not receive the most votes or the most seats in the Storting of participating parties. Results Seat distribution References {{Norwegian elections General elections in Norway 1920s elections in Norway Norway Parliamentary Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

Karl Wilhelm Wefring
Karl Wilhelm Wefring (11 October 1867 – 28 September 1938) was a Norwegian physician and politician who served as Minister of Defence in the 1920s. Political career Wefring was first elected to the Parliament of Norway as an independent for South Hedemark for the period 1916–1818. He was the Norwegian Minister of Defence 1920–1921, 1923-1924 and 1926. He served in the parliament for Oslo, representing the Liberal Left Party in the period 19125-1927 where he held the position as president of the Odelsting.Karl Wilhelm Wefring
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Professional career

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Norwegian Labour Party
The Labour Party ( nb, Arbeiderpartiet; nn, Arbeidarpartiet; A/Ap; se, Bargiidbellodat), formerly The Norwegian Labour Party ( no, Det norske Arbeiderparti, DNA), is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is positioned on the centre-left of the political spectrum, and is led by Jonas Gahr Støre. It was the senior partner of the governing Red–green coalition (Norway), red–green coalition from 2005 to 2013, and its former leader Jens Stoltenberg served as the prime minister of Norway. The Labour Party is officially committed to social-democratic ideals. Its slogan since the 1930s has been "everyone shall take part" and the party traditionally seeks a strong welfare state, funded through taxes and Duty (economics), duties. Since the 1980s, the party has included more of the principles of a social market economy in its policy, allowing for privatisation of state-owned assets and services and reducing income tax Progressive tax, progressivity, following the wave of ...
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