Ivar Jørgensen

Ivar Jørgensen (31 May 1877 – 24 February 1956) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party.

He was born at Langstrand in Sørøysund as a son of teacher Johannes Jørgensen (1850–1892) and Beret Martha Buvik (1855–1935). He went to sea at the age of fifteen, took lower education in Kristiania and was a construction and factory laborer in Kristiania and Furnes until 1902. In 1902 he was hired in a dairy, and in 1909 he became co-owner of the dairy Fortuna Meieri. From 1916 to 1935 he was an inspector and office manager in the housing rental division of Oslo. From 1935 he was a manager of Krohgstøttens Sykehus.[1]

He was also a city council member in Kristiania from 1907 to 1922, and deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Oslo during the terms 1913–1915,[1] 1916–1918[2] and 1919–1921. He was a board member of Kristiania Labour Party from 1906 to 1921, and also a supervisory council member of the Labour Party until 1921. He was also active in the temperance movement.[1]

He died in February 1956 and was buried at Nordre gravlund.[3][4]

References
  1. "Ivar Jørgensen" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2010.
  2. "Norges Offisielle Statistikk. VI. 65. Stortingsvalget 1915" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway.
  3. "Cemeteries in Norway". DIS-Norge. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  4. Death announcement, Aftenposten 29 February 1956 p. 11


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