Lars Skjølaas (14 August 1933 – 21 July 2011) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was born in

Fluberg Fluberg is a village in Søndre Land Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located near the north end of the Randsfjorden, about north of the village of Hov and about to the southeast of the village of Dokka. The village wa ...

and grew up in

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, and spent his professional career as a managing director. His father Bernt Skjølaas was a longtime mayor. Skjølaas was a member of

Søndre Land Søndre Land is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Land. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hov. Other villages in the municipality include Fluberg and Odnes. Th ...

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, chaired Søndre Land Labour Party, and from 1976 to 1999 he was a member of

Oppland Oppland is a former county in Norway which existed from 1781 until its dissolution on 1 January 2020. The old Oppland county bordered the counties of Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The co ...

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. He was deputy county mayor from 1986 to 1992 and county mayor from 1992 to 1999. He served as a deputy representative to the

Parliament of Norway The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ...

from

during the term 1977–1981. In total he met during 5 days of parliamentary session.

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1933 births 2011 deaths People from Søndre Land Oppland politicians Labour Party (Norway) politicians Chairmen of County Councils of Norway Deputy members of the Storting {{Norway-politician-1930s-stub