Peder Edvard Vorum (4 October 1884 – 24 April 1970) was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Labour Democrats, the Labour Party and

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. He was born at Steinnes in

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as a son of farmers Christoffer Olsen Vorum (1843–1915) and Karoline Elvine Ertsaas (1855–1890). He attended Ogndal Folk High School from 1901 to 1902, and graduated from Levanger Teachers' College in 1905. He was hired as a school teacher at Falstad in 1905, then in

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later in 1905, then in

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from 1906 to 1909. In 1910 he was hired as a teacher in

Ytre Rendal Municipality Ytre Rendal is a former municipality in the old Hedmark county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1880 until its dissolution in 1965. The area is now part of Rendalen Municipality in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administra ...

. He was hired as county auditor in 1929, and chief administrative officer in

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in 1941. In 1944 he became school director. He served as mayor of

from 1913 to 1934. From 1931 to 1933 he chaired

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. He stood for parliamentary election in

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, representing the Labour Democrats, but finished a distant fourth among the four candidates. In

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he was a minor ballot candidat for the same party, now named the Radical People's Party. In

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and

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he had changed allegiance and was now a minor ballot candidat for the Labour Party. He was elected to the

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, representing the constituency of Hedmark, and was re-elected in

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. This was a representative for the Labour Party. He had formerly stood on the ballot for the Radical People's Party in the 1921 general election, and been eighth and tenth ballot candidate (and thus not elected) for Labour in the

and

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, respectively. During the

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he joined the Fascist party

in the autumn of 1940. He was installed as chief administrative officer in Åmot, and also served as mayor. He was the only person in the Labour Party's parliamentary group from 1936 to join Nasjonal Samling. On 24 September 1948, during the

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he was convicted of treason and sentenced to five years of forced labour and loss of his job. He was one of fifteen former Labour Party mayors to be convicted of treason. He died in April 1970 and was buried in Ytre Rendal.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vorum, Peder 1884 births 1970 deaths People from Steinkjer People from Rendalen Norwegian educators Nord-Trøndelag University College alumni Mayors of places in Hedmark Chairpersons of County Councils of Norway Members of the Storting Radical People's Party (Norway) politicians Labour Party (Norway) politicians Members of Nasjonal Samling Mayors under the German occupation of Norway People convicted of treason for Nazi Germany against Norway