Per Aasness (26 July 1875 – 1959) was a

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military officer and politician for the

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. He was born at Flaen in

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as a son of farmer and forest owner Carelius Pedersen Aasness (1842–1907) and Johanne Amalie Simensen (1838–1920). He took commerce school and then

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's school at

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in 1896. He took over the family farm Søndre Åsnes in

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in 1905, and in 1930 he was hired as district manager for Glommens Tømmermåling, with residence in

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. He had previously been a supervisory council member of Glommens Tømmermåling from 1918 to 1923, and then board member. In the military he advanced in the ranks via sergeant in 1897, in 1902, commander sergeant in 1903, (''

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'' in the

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) in 1912 and finally captain in the artillery from 1930 to 1935. He was a leader and from 1938 an honorary member of his local union, ; and was the deputy chair of the nationwide union for two years. He is listed as having had "almost all municipal posts" in Åsnes, and was a member of the

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from 1904 to 1922. He served the last three years as mayor. He fielded as the

candidate in several parliamentary elections, the first time in

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. He then lost to Labour's Ivar Hvamstad with 1,898 to 3,679 votes, although Aasness edged out the Conservative candidate R. Jahr who tallied 1,385 votes. In 1918, he ran against the former deputy of the now-deceased Hvamstad, Halvdan Aarsrud. Aarsrud prevailed with 3,952 votes against 1,637 for Aasness and 1,623 for Agrarian T. Gjølstad. By 1921, however, plural-member constituencies had been instituted and Aasness was nominated as the Liberal ballot's second candidate in

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, only behind MP Johannes Johnsen Grue. Grue was elected, and Aasness served as his deputy. Aasness most significantly met in Parliament during 1923. In

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Grue was nominated for re-election, heading the ballot ahead of Thore Myrvang and Aasness, but the ballot did not prevail this time. From 1923 to 1930 Aasness was a member of the county tax board in Hedmark and the supervisory committee for the

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, the

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and the Solør Line. He was engaged in local sports, and was also the manager of the

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. In 1942, during the

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, he was relieved of this position by the Nazi authorities. He had fought in the Norwegian Campaign battles in Hedmark, and was viewed with constant suspicion. He was arrested in 1942 and interrogated twice at

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. He died in 1959.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aasness, Per 1875 births 1959 deaths People from Åsnes Norwegian farmers Norwegian Army personnel of World War II Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Mayors of places in Hedmark Deputy members of the Storting Norwegian trade unionists