Randolf Arnesen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian politician
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Place of Birth: Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
About Randolf Arnesen
- Randolf Arnesen (29 August 1880 – 25 May 1958) was a Norwegian trade unionist, copperativist and politician for the Labour and Social Democratic Labour parties. He was born in Bergen.
- He was a co-founder of Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund, and was the deputy chairman from 1903 to 1904 and chairman from 1904 to 1905.
- In 1910 he was elected as a member of Kristiania city council, where he was a member of the executive committee for many years.
- He was a city council member until 1934.
- In the 1921 general election, Arnesen was the third ballot candidate for his new party, the Social Democratic Labour Party.
- He was the fifth candidate in 1924.
- He rejoined Labour in 1927, when it became reunited with the Social Democratic Labour Party. He took education as a turner, and joined his trade union Jerndreiernes forening in Kristiania in 1900.
- He later chaired it from 1910 to 1911.
- He also chaired the cooperative at Thorshaug from 1909 to 1910.
- From 1911 to 1919 he was an under-secretary in the Labour Party, and from 1919 he edited Kooperatøren, the magazine of Norges Kooperative Landsforening where he was a secrerary from 1919 to 1948 and board member.
- He also chaired the Norwegian Tenants' Association from 1915 to 1924, and wrote pamphlets on housing and cooperatives.
- From 1920 to 1922 he was a member of the national Housing Law Commission.In 1956 he was among the first recipients of the Medal of St.
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- He died in 1958.
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