Oskar Skogly (4 February 1908 – 16 February 1988) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party. He is known as Minister of Local Government, mayor of

Fåberg Fåberg is a former municipality in the old Oppland county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until 1964. Now, it is part of Lillehammer Municipality in Innlandet county. The administrative centre was the village of Fåberg. History ...

and three-term member of the

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Career

He was born in

as a son of mason and

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Ole Håvemoen (1873–1956) and housewife Anna Mathisen (1870–1962). He took education as a painter, but made a career as a trade unionist in the

Norwegian Union of Building Industry Workers The Norwegian Union of Building Industry Workers ( no, Norsk Bygningsindustriarbeiderforbund, NBIAF) was a trade union in Norway, organized under the national Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions. It was founded in 1923 as the Norwegian Union o ...

, where he was a national board member from 1933 to 1940 and 1945 to 1974. He became a board member of the local Workers' Youth League chapter already in 1923, and remained so until 1932, chairing the chapter from 1924 to 1925 and 1928 to 1930. He served as deputy mayor of Fåberg from 1937 to 1945, except for the years 1941 to 1945 during the

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. He then became mayor from 1945 to 1957. He was also a member of the school board from 1946 to 1957, as well as many other public committees. He was elected to the

from

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 ...

in 1958, and was re-elected on two occasions, the last term ending in 1969. From February to August 1963 he was the Norwegian Minister of Local Government in

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. During this time his seat in parliament was taken by

Per Mellesmo Per Mellesmo (15 September 1919 in Vågå – 3 May 1993) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oppland in 1965, and was re-elected on two occasions. He had previously served as a deputy ...

. From 1965 to 1969 Skogly served as the Vice President of the Odelsting. He was also a member of

Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municip ...

city council from 1963 to 1971 and 1975 to 1979. Skogly served as a deputy board member of Opplandskraft from 1953 to 1961, board member of the Norwegian Federation of Co-operative Housing Associations, corporate council member in

Norsk Jernverk Norsk Jernverk is a former Norwegian industrial company which was founded in 1946 in Mo i Rana, fully owned by the Norwegian government. The production started in 1955. In 1985 it acquired the steel company Christiania Spigerverk, which was later ag ...

from 1970 to 1978, and board chairman of Hunderfossen interkommunale kraftselskap from 1946 to 1976, '' Dagningen'' from 1955 to 1956 and the

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from 1966 to 1978.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Skogly, Oskar 1908 births 1988 deaths Norwegian trade unionists Labour Party (Norway) politicians Mayors of places in Oppland Members of the Storting Ministers of Local Government and Modernisation of Norway 20th-century Norwegian politicians