Trygve Haugeland (18 March 1914 – 10 December 1998) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.

Biography

He was born in

Lyngdal is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Alleen. Some of the main villages in Lyngdal include Austad, Byremo, Fleseland, ...

. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from

Vest-Agder Vest-Agder (; "West Agder") was one of 18 counties (''fylker'') in Norway up until 1 January 2020, when it was merged with Aust-Agder to form Agder county. In 2016, there were 182,701 inhabitants, around 3.5% of the total population of Norway. ...

in 1958, but was not re-elected in 1961. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1945–1949 and 1950–1953. He was the Minister of the Environment in 1972–1973 during the

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. He left the post seven months before the tenure of the cabinet ended. On the local level he was member of

municipality council from 1945 to 1955, serving as deputy mayor from 1947.

References

* 1914 births 1998 deaths People from Vest-Agder People from Lyngdal Ministers of Climate and the Environment of Norway Centre Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting 20th-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1910s-stub