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, and served as a

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from 1942. He was assistant pastor of the

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Pentecostal church from 1952 to 1959, pastor in Skien from 1959 to 1968, pastor in

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from 1968 to 1971, and pastor of Filadelfia Oslo from 1971 to 1989. As leader of the largest Pentecostal congregation in the nation's capital, he was a national leader. In the

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he was the third candidate on the ballot in Telemark, behind Johannes Østtveit and Olav Søyland and ahead of writer

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. He was elected as deputy representative for the term 1965–1969. He was later a minor candidate in the

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and

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elections. He was married for almost 60 years and had four children. He died in March 2010.

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1925 births 2010 deaths Politicians from Porsgrunn Norwegian evangelists Deputy members of the Storting Christian Democratic Party (Norway) politicians Politicians from Telemark {{Norway-politician-1920s-stub