Ivar Marius Færder (19 July 1886 – ??) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the

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and

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parties. He was born at Færder in

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as a son of farmers Helge Lundkvist and Karen Færder. He took basic education in his county, and in

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from 1908 to 1909. He had been secretary of his party branch in Hedemarkens Amt from 1907, and from 1909 to 1910 he edited the Labour newspaper '' Solungen'' in

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. From 1911 to 1915 he was a police officer, and also a

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. He chaired the regional party branch in Solør from 1913. From 1913 to 1915 he was a member of Åsnes

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. He then became a civil servant in

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. He was elected as mayor of Vinger in 1919, and served as such before the Second World War, except for two periods (of three years each). He was elected as a deputy representative to the

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from the constituency ''Vinger og Odalen''. From 1925 to 1927 he served a second term as a deputy, from Hedmark, this time for the Communist Party. In the 1927 election he was their fourth ballot candidate in Hedmark, and barely missed being elected as a deputy. He was a member of Åsnes school board from 1912 to 1915, Vinger school board from 1917 to 1920 and the county roads board from 1925 to 1928. In October 1940, during the

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, he was removed as mayor of Vinger by the Nazi authorities. He was also arrested, and imprisoned in

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from October to December 1940. After the war he chaired Hedmark

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from 1945 to 1947.

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1886 births Year of death missing People from Åsnes Politicians from Kongsvinger Norwegian newspaper editors Norwegian civil servants Mayors of places in Hedmark Members of the Storting Labour Party (Norway) politicians Communist Party of Norway politicians {{Norway-politician-1880s-stub