Haakon Storøy (February 21, 1907 – December 13, 1977) was a Norwegian editor and a politician for the Center Party. Storøy was a farmer's son from the village of

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in the municipality of Kolvereid. After completing primary school, he worked as a

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fisherman and forestry worker before attending vocational school in Trondheim in 1924. He moved to

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to manage a store, postal, and shipping office, and he began writing articles for the newspaper ''Ofotens Folkeblad''. Some years later he became the travel secretary for the Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue, where he mostly worked winters for seven years and worked part-time at newspapers in the summers. Storøy was an editorial secretary for '' Namdalens Folkeblad'' in Namsos, the editor of '' Harstad Tidende'' from 1945 to 1946, and then the county secretary for the

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in Trondheim. Later he served as editor of the paper '' Nordtrønderen og Namdalen'' in Namsos for a number of years. In the 1950s and 1960s, he created several programs and feature contributions about

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and Namdalen for the NRK radio studio in Namsos, often together with

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and

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from NRK in Trondheim. Storøy was the primary deputy member of the

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from Nord-Trøndelag from 1954 to 1961, and he attended 114 days.Biography of Haakon Storøy at stortinget.no.
/ref> He also spent some time as a member of the Namsos municipal council.

References

External links

Biography of Haakon Storøy at stortinget.no
{{DEFAULTSORT:Storoy, Haakon 20th-century Norwegian politicians Politicians from Nord-Trøndelag Centre Party (Norway) politicians Deputy members of the Storting Norwegian newspaper editors People from Nærøy 1907 births 1977 deaths