Thorolf Bugge (1 October 1879 – 21 May 1935) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the

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and

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parties. He was born in

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as a son of district physician Johan Carl Bugge (1847–1902) and Christine Theodora Drolsum (1854–1882). He was a grandson of Ulrik Bugge. He had middle school education, and also studied at Bergen Technical School. He was hired at a post office in

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in 1898, and when postmaster

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was a member of Parliament, Bugge was acting postmaster in Vardø from 1901 to 1906. He then started working at a farm and in the company

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. He became chairman of the trade union Nordens Klippe from 1907 to 1908, but for his activism he was

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. He continued as a farmer until 1916, then as a manager in

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provisioning council until 1917, then as a municipal secretary. He moved from his farm to

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. He had entered politics, and was a member of the executive committee of Sør-Varanger

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from 1910 to 1922; also a school board member from 1910 to 1916. In the

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he was elected to the

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. He was a member of the Standing Committee on Roads. In 1923, before the parliamentary term was over, he left the Labour Party and joined the Communist Party. He headed their ballot in the subsequent elections of

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and

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, but was never again re-elected. He was married to cultural worker

Kathrine Bugge Kathrine Susanne Bugge, née Hanssen (30 May 1877 – 10 June 1951) was a Norwegian educator, cultural worker and politician for the Communist Party. She was born in Bodø as a daughter of tailor, editor and missionary Jakob Andreas Hanssen and hi ...

(née Hanssen, 1877–1951) from December 1922. He died in May 1935, aged 55.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bugge, Thorolf 1879 births 1935 deaths Norwegian trade unionists Labour Party (Norway) politicians Communist Party of Norway politicians Finnmark politicians Members of the Storting People from Sør-Varanger