Mons Arntsen Løvset (18 August 1891 – 7 April 1972) was a Norwegian businessman, newspaper editor and politician for the Conservative Party.

Biography

He was born in

Byneset Municipality Byneset is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality of Byneset encompassed the western part of what is now Trondheim Municipality in T ...

in Søndre Trondhjem county, Norway. His parents were Arnt Løvset (1873-1938) and Helle Håve (1870-1911). He was raised on the Æli farm in

Børsa Municipality Børsa is a List of former municipalities of Norway, former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. The municipality originally encompassed the coastal areas along ...

which his father acquired in 1899 and which he took over from 1922. He attended vocational school, where he studied business. He was editor of the newspaper '' Fosen Blad'' in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populous municipality in Norway, and is ...

from 1933 until 1941 when publication was stopped by authorities during the

German occupation of Norway The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until th ...

. He served as chairman of the board of Børsa Kaiselskap from 1939 to 1957. He also served as chairman of the board of the Orkla

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plant () at

Orkanger Orkanger is a town and the administrative centre of Orkland Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The town sits at the end of the Orkdal Fjord, an arm of the Trondheimsfjord. Orkanger is the commercial centre of Orkland Municipality and it ...

from 1961. Løvset was a member of the

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between 1947 and 1953. He was elected to the

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from

Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag (; ) was a Counties of Norway, county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag () county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. ...

from 1950 to 1961.

References

1891 births 1972 deaths People from Sør-Trøndelag Norwegian editors 20th-century Norwegian businesspeople Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting 1958–1961 Members of the Storting 1954–1957 Members of the Storting 1950–1953 {{Norway-politician-1890s-stub