Arnold Holmboe (11 March 1873 – 27 July 1956) was a Norwegian politician for the

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. He was

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, two-term member of the

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as well as

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from 1922 to 1923 and

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from 1924 to 1926.

Personal life

He was born in

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as the son of farmer Anton Christian Holmboe (1839–1911) and his wife Elen Berthine Arntsdatter Stjernen (1849–1902). He had several younger sisters. He was a distant relative of Otto Holmboe (1710–1773), and his grandfather Hans Fredrik was a third cousin of academics Bernt Michael and

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. In 1904 Arnold Holmboe married Dagmar Theodora Dahlmann. The couple had one son.Arnold Holmboe genealogy
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Career

He took higher education, graduated as

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in 1900 and then worked in

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for one year and

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for two years. In 1903 he was hired as an attorney in

. He was a member of Tromsø

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from 1907 to 1922, serving as mayor in the periods 1907 to 1908, 1913 to 1914 and 1916 to 1917. He was also CEO of the local

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from 1913 to 1928.Arnold Holmboe
– Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) He was elected to the

in 1922, representing the

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. On 24 August the same year, he was appointed

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in the second cabinet Blehr. His seat in Parliament was taken by Knut Nilsen Evanger. Holmboe later lost the job when the second cabinet Blehr fell in March 1923. However, in July 1924 Holmboe returned as Minister of Finance and Customs in the first cabinet Mowinckel. That cabinet fell in March 1926. Holmboe then stood for election to Parliament, and served one last term from 1928 to 1930. From 1928 to 1943 he was the CEO of

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. As a part of the

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, Holmboe was a member of the Undersøkelseskommisjonen av 1945.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holmboe, Arnold 1873 births 1956 deaths Members of the Storting Ministers of Finance of Norway Government ministers of Norway Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Politicians from Tromsø Mayors of places in Troms Norwegian jurists Ministers of Justice of Norway