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About Halvdan Aarsrud
- Halvdan Aarsrud (29 September 1878 – 25 July 1925) was a Norwegian bailiff and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Våler, Hedmark as a son of farmer and politician Hermann Hansen Aarsrud (1837–1927) and Amalie Lundeby (1849–1915).
- After finishing primary school and county school, he graduated from Jønsberg Agricultural School.
- In 1907 he settled as a farmer in Våler, first at the farm Nervåle and later at Sole.
- From 1918 he was also the bailiff of VÃ¥ler; and he was the director of the local savings bank.In VÃ¥ler he was a member of the municipal council from 1913 to 1925, serving as mayor from 1913 to 1918.
- He was also a member of the school board and county roads committee.
- He chaired the constituency branch of the Labour Party in Solør.
- In the 1915 parliamentary election he was fielded as the running mate of Labour's candidate Ivar Hvamstad, and with 3,679 votes Hvamstad edged out the closest challenger, Liberal Per Aasness with a wide margin.
- Hvamstad assumed his parliamentary seat in early 1916, but died in May 1916, upon which point Aarsrud replaced him as an MP.
- Aarsrud then ran for re-election in 1918, now with A.
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- Fjeldseth as his running mate, and with 3,952 votes he edged out Aasness as the closest challenger who tallied 1,637 votes.
- Aarsrud served through 1921 as a member of the Standing Committee on Forestry and Water Resources.
- From 1920 to 1923 he was a deputy board member of the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Agency.
- He died in July 1925.
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