Key facts
- Monarch
- Haakon VII
- Preceded by
- Einar Gerhardsen
- Succeeded by
- Einar Gerhardsen
- Prime minister
- Einar Gerhardsen
- Vice president
- Nils Langhelle
- Deputy
- Eugen Amandus Pettersen , Carl Henry , Gunvor Katharina Eker
- Constituency
- Oslo (1937–1949) , Vestfold (1949–1958)
- Born
- Oscar Frederik Torp , ( 1893-06-08 ) 8 June 1893, Skjeberg , Østfold , Sweden-Norway
- Died
- 1 May 1958 (1958-05-01) (aged 64), Oslo , Norway
- Party
- Labour
- Spouse
- Kari Hansen
- Profession
- Civil servant , Electrician
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Oscar
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Skjeberg
- Place of death
- Oslo
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- party leader
- Political party
- Norwegian Labour Party
- Languages spoken
- Norwegian
- Image
- 26771 Oscar Torp.jpg
- Work location
- Oslo
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- name in native language
- Oscar Torp
- Commons category
- Oscar Torp
- date of birth
- 1893-06-08
- date of death
- 1958-05-01
- place of burial
- Vår Frelsers gravlund
- cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Oscar Fredrik Torp (pronunciation, 8 June 1893 – 1 May 1958) was a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. He was party leader from 1923 to 1945, and mayor of Oslo in 1935 and 1936. In 1935 he became the acting minister of defence in the government of Johan Nygaardsvold. He was also the minister of social affairs from 1936 to 1939, and then the minister of finance from 1939 to 1942. He was appointed minister of defence again in 1942 in the London-based Norwegian exile government. He continued until the election in 1945 when he became the minister of provisioning and reconstruction until 1948.
Hailing from Skjeberg, he was first elected to the Parliament of Norway representing Oslo in 1936, but did not take a seat in the Parliament until 1948. He then became the faction leader for the Labour Party in Parliament. He became the prime minister of Norway in 1951 when Einar Gerhardsen stepped down from this position; the move was reversed in 1955 when Torp became the president of the Storting. He held this position until his death.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oscar Torp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.