Roger Gudmundseth (born 15 June 1938) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Ålesund as a son of shipmaster Randulv Gudmundseth (1906 Tokyo–1972) and housewife Jenny Rasmussen (1910–1989). He worked as a fisher from 1954 to 1957, before attending commerce school and insurance school. He worked in Samvirke forsikring from 1963 to 1973, in ''Fiskernes gjensidige ulykkestrygdelag'' from 1973 to 1981 and as an office manager in Norges Fiskarlag from 1979 to 1981. On the local level he was a deputy member of Ålesund city council from 1967 to 1970 and of the executive committee of

Stjørdal Stjørdal () or is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Stjørdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Stjørdal, also called Stjørdalshalsen. Some of the villages in the municipalit ...

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 1975 to 1979. He chaired the local party chapter from 1979 to 1982. He was elected 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 ...

from

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. The county was established in 1804 when the old Trondhjems amt was divided into two: Nordre Trondhjems amt and S ...

in 1981, and was re-elected on three occasions, his last term ending in 1997. Among others, he became known for a suggestion to replace Norway's 19 counties with 5 administrative regions. Gudmundseth was a board member of ''Norges Fiskarlags Pensjonskasse'' 1979–1983, and was also involved in his trade union Union of Employees in Commerce and Offices and the N findorwegian Heart and Lung Patient Organisation. He now lives in Ålesund. He is the father of Merethe Storødegård.

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1938 births Living people Labour Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Politicians from Nord-Trøndelag Norwegian trade unionists Politicians from Ålesund 20th-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1930s-stub