Oddbjørn Snøfugl (2 October 1941 – 14 December 2022) was a Norwegian school principal politician for the Centre Party. He grew up in

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at the Snøfugl farm. Not wanting a career as a farmer, he took the

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at Orkdal landsgymnas, tried working as a teacher in Bangsund and enrolled at the Norwegian Teachers' College. He graduated in 1971 with the cand.philol. degree, his graduate thesis in English being ''Edward Albee's play Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse Tung: an analysis''. Snøfugl was hired as a teacher at Støren Secondary School, later Støren Upper Secondary School. In 1984 he was hired as headmaster of Melhus Upper Secondary School. He was recruited to Vinstra Upper Secondary School as headmaster in 1992. Moving to Lillehammer, he also worked in

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as school director and vice chief administrative officer. Following the 1975 Norwegian local elections, Snøfugl was elected mayor of Midtre Gauldal. He edged out Labour's Inge Grav with a 18–16 vote between the members of the

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. After a four-year term he stepped down and was replaced by partyfellow Anders Storrøsæter. He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Sør-Trøndelag during the term 1969–1973. In total he met during 6 days of parliamentary session. After retiring, Snøfugl wrote three books, one of them about a missionary in India, Johan Ofstad. Snøfugl also spent two years editing the

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yearbook ''Gauldalsminne''. He resided in

Støren is the administrative centre of Midtre Gauldal municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located in the Gauldalen valley at the confluence of the rivers Gaula and ''Sokna''. Støren is located on the European route E06 highwa ...

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