Julius Fure (19 December 1931 – 18 March 2006) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He served as mayor of

Selje Selje is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway and was located in the traditional district of Nordfjord. The village of Selje was the administrative center this municipality. and neighborhoods in the municipality i ...

municipality from 1968 to 1971 and 1976 to 1982. He was also elected to the

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. He served for the first time from 1968 to 1971, and was elected in 1976 for a protest list. He later sat from 1980 to 1996 for the Conservative Party. He became deputy county mayor in 1984, and then county mayor in 1988. He lost the mayor post following the 1991 elections, but remained a county council member until 1995. At the nomination that year, he was not re-nominated at all, since the nomination committee prioritized Anne Margrethe Øvsthus on the ticket, and Fure refused to be placed lower than first place. Julius Fure was the older brother of historian

Odd-Bjørn Fure Odd-Bjørn Fure (5 March 1942 – 22 December 2022) was a Norwegian historian and political scientist. He was born at Stad (peninsula), Stadlandet, and was a brother of politician Julius Fure (1931–2006). His main studies were in comparative pol ...

, and lived at

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. He was a (non-executive) member of the boards of Widerøe's Flyveselskap and

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, and chairman of the board of

Fylkesbaatane Fjord1 Fylkesbaatane (formerly known as Fylkesbaatane i Sogn og Fjordane and Nordre Bergenhus Amts Dampskibe) is a Norwegian transport company. It is a subsidiary of the Fjord1 Nordvestlandske conglomerate and primarily runs ferry, passenger an ...

. He died in 2006.

References

1931 births 2006 deaths Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Mayors of places in Sogn og Fjordane Chairpersons of County Councils of Norway {{Norway-politician-1930s-stub