Oddmund Hoel (18 January 1910 – 26 November 1983) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was born in Opdal. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from

Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag () was a county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. To the west is the No ...

in 1954, and was re-elected on two occasions. On the local level Hoel was a member of Opdal

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from 1945 to 1959. Outside politics he worked as a

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(1930–1941, 1945–1975) and a

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(1941–1945, 1975–1983), having graduated as

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in 1941. He also had a

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1910 births 1983 deaths Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Sør-Trøndelag politicians 20th-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1910s-stub