Thore Embretsen Myrvang (21 January 1858 – 9 July 1939) was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Liberal Party and the Labour Democrats. He was born in

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as a son of farmers Embret Thoresen Myrvang (1828–1884) and Gisken Krogseng (1829–1922). He took teacher's education at Hamar Seminary in 1877, and was a teacher in Stor-Elvdal until 1916. He also owned the farm Westgård from 1896. From 1911 to 1915 he was the acting school director of the

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, being a substitute for

Olav Andreas Eftestøl Olaf or Olav (, , or British ; Old Norse: ''Áleifr'', ''Ólafr'', ''Óleifr'', ''Anleifr'') is a Scandinavian and German given name. It is presumably of Proto-Norse origin, reconstructed as ''*Anu-laibaz'', from ''anu'' "ancestor, grand-father" ...

who was an MP. Myrvang served as mayor of Stor-Elvdal from 1901 to 1904, 1913 to 1916 and 1922 to 1925. During the last period he also chaired the

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(which was composed of mayors). He then represented the Labour Democrats, which he joined after the split from the Liberal Party. For both these parties, he served a total of six terms in the

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. The first five terms were continuous, with Myrvang winning elections in

1894 Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...

1897 Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...

1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been ...

and

1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...

. On the latter occasion, the system with single-member constituencies had been implemented, and Myrvang won because he gathered the social democratic vote. In

1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ...

, he was elected as the deputy of Olav Andreas Eftestøl in ''Søndre Østerdalen'', whereas in

1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ...

he was elected to his sixth and last term, with K. K. Sanaker as his deputy. In

1918 This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events ...

, the last election with single-member constituencies, he lost to Johan Bondesen, social democrat from Stor-Elvdal. In

1921 Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil. ** The Spanish lin ...

, Myrvang headed the party ballot in the plural-member constituency Hedmark, whereas in

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...

he was the second candidate on a joint list with the Liberal Party, both times without being elected. Among his other posts, Myrvang chaired the county school board of Hedmark from 1924 to 1930, and also chaired the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Myrvang, Thore 1939 deaths 1858 births People from Tynset People from Stor-Elvdal Norwegian educators Mayors of places in Hedmark Chairmen of County Councils of Norway Members of the Storting Radical People's Party (Norway) politicians 20th-century Norwegian politicians