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Otto Bonden
Otto Bonden (3 September 1858 – 28 July 1924) was a Norwegian farmer, businessperson and politician for the Liberal Left Party. He was born in Sande, Vestfold as a son of farmers Ole Bonden (1816–1889) and Grethe Karine née Christiansen (1825–1869). When his father died in 1889, Bonden took over the family farm Øvre Bonden, where he died in July 1924. Bonden was also a shopowner near Sande Station and invested in forestry and mining, being a board member of Dalen Gruver. He served as a member of Sande municipal council (Norway), municipal council from 1902 to 1910, including a period as mayor from 1907 to 1910, and later returned to the municipal council from 1923 to his death. Bonden was elected as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from the single-member constituency ''Jarlsberg'' in 1915 Norwegian parliamentary election, 1915 and 1918 Norwegian parliamentary election, 1918 as the running mate of Jørgen Hansen Gunnestad. They were joint tickets of ...
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Liberal Left Party
The Free-minded Liberal Party () was a political party in Norway founded in 1909 by the conservative-liberal faction of the Liberal Party. The party cooperated closely with the Conservative Party and participated in several short-lived governments, including two headed by Free-minded Prime Ministers. In the 1930s the party changed its name to the Free-minded People's Party () and initiated cooperation with nationalist groups. The party contested its last election in 1936, and was not reorganised in 1945. History The Free-minded Liberal Party was founded in March 1909 under influence of Norway's first independent Prime Minister, Christian Michelsen of the Liberal Party, after around a third of the Liberal parliamentary representatives had been excluded from a reconstitution of the Liberal Party in 1908. The party was founded in protest against the increasingly radical course of the "consolidated" Liberal Party, which the party's right wing considered to conflict with the party' ...
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