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Nils J. Helgheim
Nils Helgheim (14 June 1903 – 1 October 1982) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party (Norway), Centre Party. He served as a deputy representative to the Storting, Norwegian Parliament from Sogn og Fjordane during the terms 1954–1957 and 1958–1961. On the local level, he was a member of Jølster municipality council from 1933 to 1967, serving as mayor from 1952. In 1963 Helgheim became deputy county mayor (''fylkesvaraordfører'') of Sogn og Fjordane. In 1964, when illness struck the county mayor Ragnvald Terum Winjum, Helgheim moved up and assumed the post. Helgheim lost the post in 1967. From 1952 to 1959 the farmer Helgheim was a member of the board of the Norwegian Agrarian Association. He served four years as deputy chairman. References *NRK County Encyclopedia of Sogn og Fjordane [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre Party (Norway)
The Centre Party (, Sp; ), formerly the Farmer's Party (, Bp), is an Agrarianism, agrarian List of political parties in Norway, political party in Norway. Ideologically, the Centre Party is positioned in the Centrism, centre on the political spectrum, it advocates for economic nationalism, economic nationalist and Protectionism, protectionist policy to protect Norwegian farmers with toll tariffs, and it supports decentralisation. It was founded in 1920 as the Farmers' Party (, Bp) and from its founding until 2000, the Centre Party joined only governments not led by the Labour Party (Norway), Labour Party, although it had previously supported a Nygaardsvold's Cabinet, Labour government in the 1930s. This turned around in 2005, when the party joined the Red–green coalition (Norway), red–green coalition government led by the Labour Party. Governments headed by prime ministers from the party include the short-lived Kolstad's Cabinet, Kolstad and Hundseid's Cabinet between 1931 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |