Lydolf Lind Meløy (11 April 1908 25 May 1999) was a Norwegian educator, trade unionist, and politician for the

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. He was born in Meløya (part of

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) as a son of fisher-farmers. His mother died shortly after his birth, and his father became invalid in 1918. His father died in 1925, and Lydolf moved to

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where he worked at a furniture factory. He attended Fana Folk High School, Volda Teachers' College and the Norwegian College of Teaching in Trondheim from 1950 to 1951, and also took the

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in 1942. In the 1930s he worked in Nordland and Finnmark; from 1937 to 1939 in

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and 1939 in

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, then

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. Around the

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of 1944, Vadsø became uninhabitable until 1945. Meløy then returned and worked as a teacher in Vadsø until 1948, school inspector in

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for twenty years and school director in

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from 1968 to 1978. He was the mayor of Karasjok from 1956 to 1962. He represented the Liberal Party and was a deputy member of the

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from the constituency Finnmark during the term 1958–1961. He was present in 76 days of parliamentary session. He was a ballot candidate from the constituency Oslo in

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. He chaired the trade union ''Norges Lærerlag'' from 1962 to 1968, having been a central board member since 1959. He became an honorary member in 1970 (when the organization had become ''Norsk Lærerlag''). He was decorated with the

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in gold in 1982. He was the deputy chair of the

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from 1968 to 1976. He was an active member of the temperance movement (

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), the

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movement and was a prominent and defender of

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and culture. In his later years he worked with writing, among others within teachers' history. In 1996 he published his memoirs ''Minne frå eit langt liv''. He died in May 1999 in Sarpsborg.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Meloey, Lydolf Lind 1908 births 1999 deaths People from Øksnes Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Deputy members of the Storting Norwegian educators Norwegian trade unionists Mayors of places in Finnmark Norwegian temperance activists Nynorsk-language writers Volda University College alumni Recipients of the King's Medal of Merit in gold 20th-century Norwegian writers 20th-century Norwegian memoirists