Amund Braaten (6 December 1849 – 2 October 1919) was a Norwegian farmer and politician. He was born at Slåstadbråten in Sør-Odal as a son of farmers Jest Braaten (1802–1859) and Marthe Melgaarden (1813–1871). He was a farmer at Slåstadbråten until 1887, when he took over as forest manager for the companies And. H. Kiær & Co. and Lier, Varald og Bogen. He remained so until 1919. From 1889 to 1891 he was a member of the city council and school board of

Kongsvinger Kongsvinger () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Glåmdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kongsvinger. Other settlements in the municipality include Aust ...

. He served in Vinger

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counci ...

from 1895 to 1897, then in Kongsvinger city council again from 1910 to 1913. In the 1915 election he stood as the running mate of

Axel Thallaug Axel Andreas Thallaug (15 April 1866 – 17 March 1938) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Conservative Party from Lillehammer. He received his law degree in 1889. He was a local politician from 1894 to 1938, and a member of the Parli ...

in the constituency ''Lillehammer, Hamar, Gjøvik og Kongsvinger'', and was elected as a deputy representative to the

Parliament of Norway The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ...

for one term, representing the

Liberal Left Party The Free-minded Liberal Party ( no, Frisinnede Venstre) was a political party in Norway founded in 1909 by the conservative-liberal faction of the Liberal Party. The party cooperated closely with the Conservative Party and participated in severa ...

. The term finished in 1918, and he died in 1919.

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1849 births 1919 deaths Politicians from Kongsvinger People from Sør-Odal Norwegian farmers Deputy members of the Storting Free-minded Liberal Party politicians 20th-century Norwegian politicians Hedmark politicians {{Norway-politician-1840s-stub