Odd Bye (27 February 1916 – 26 May 2010)
was a Norwegian politician for the
Centre Party.
Bye came from
Horg
Horg is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1841 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality of Horg encompassed the southern part of what is now the municipality of Melhus in Trø ...
in
Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag () was a 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. To the west is the No ...
. From 1945 he worked as a journalist in different newspapers including ''
Nationen
''Nationen'' is a Norwegian daily newspaper with a particular focus on agriculture and rural districts. Its circulation in 2015 was 12,954, an increase of 281 copies from 2014.
History and profile
''Nationen'' was founded in 1918. '' and ''
Dagbladet Rogaland''. He also became the chief editor of the Centre Party press office when it was started in 1945 and held 1965. During
Borten's Cabinet from 1965 to 1971 Bye held the position as
State Secretary at the
Office of the Prime Minister.
[
After the Borten cabinet resigned in 1971 Bye returned to his job as chief editor and continued in that job until he retired in 1984.][
]
References
1916 births
2010 deaths
People from Melhus
Centre Party (Norway) politicians
Norwegian state secretaries
Norwegian journalists
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