34 Facts About Oscar Torp

Oscar Fredrik Torp was a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party.

Oscar Torp was party leader from 1923 to 1945, and mayor of Oslo in 1935 and 1936.

Oscar Torp was the minister of social affairs from 1936 to 1939, and then the minister of finance from 1939 to 1942.

Oscar Torp was appointed minister of defence again in 1942 in the London-based Norwegian exile government.

Oscar Torp continued until the election in 1945 when he became the minister of provisioning and reconstruction until 1948.

Oscar Torp then became the faction leader for the Labour Party in Parliament.

Oscar Torp 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.

Oscar Torp was born in Skjeberg as a son of Anton Fredrik Andersen Torp and Anne Bolette Andreassen Gade.

Oscar Torp had eight siblings, and lost his father at a young age.

Oscar Torp's father worked in Canada from 1903, and sailed home to collect his family to emigrate to Canada in 1907.

Oscar Torp eventually became an electrician, and already at the age of 14 he became deputy treasurer in his local trade union.

Oscar Torp joined the Norwegian Labour Party, and was elected to the national board in 1918, when an opposition of revolutionaries assumed power in the party.

Oscar Torp was married to Kari Hansen since April 1916.

In 1922 Oscar Torp was a delegate at the Fourth Comintern Congress.

Oscar Torp belonged to the latter wing, which assumed power at the 1923 national convention.

Oscar Torp had been a member of Sarpsborg city council from 1919 to 1923 and deputy member of Aker municipal council from 1925 to 1928 when he in 1930 moved to Oslo.

Oscar Torp served as mayor in 1935 and 1936, and was elected to the Parliament of Norway in the 1936 Norwegian parliamentary election.

Oscar Torp was then Minister of Social Affairs from November 1936 to July 1939, and Minister of Finance from July 1939 to March 1942.

Oscar Torp was acting Minister of Defence from November 1941 to February 1942, and then the permanent Minister of Defence from March 1942 to November 1945, in Nygaardsvold's and Gerhardsen's First Cabinet.

Oscar Torp was a former antimilitarist, and was imprisoned for five months in 1924 as he called for a military strike, but shed this ideology from the mid-1930s.

Oscar Torp was a board member of Folketeaterbygningen from 1935 to 1940, Idrettskomiteen av 1935, and Felleskomiteen for forstadsbanene from 1935 to 1940.

Oscar Torp was a deputy board member of Norges Kommunalbank from 1935 to 1940.

Oscar Torp chaired the Government Delegation from London to Oslo on 14 May 1945, and until 31 May 1945 he was thus the acting prime minister and acting minister of foreign affairs in Oslo.

Much because of his exile, Oscar Torp was no longer found fit to be party chairman, and was replaced, against the party by-laws.

Oscar Torp was demoted to Minister of Provisioning and Reconstruction in Gerhardsen's Second Cabinet.

Oscar Torp was pressured to leave this office as well, and left on 10 January 1948.

Oscar Torp sat through his parliamentary term to which he had been elected in 1945; until 1948 the deputy Eugen Amandus Pettersen had taken his seat.

Oscar Torp moved to Vestfold in 1948 as he was appointed County Governor there.

Oscar Torp led his cabinet for four years, and had to double as acting Minister of Trade and Shipping from 3 to 15 June 1954.

Oscar Torp was pressured to give the position back to Gerhardsen in January 1955, when Gerhardsen had strengthened himself for a few years as party chairman and President of the Storting.

Oscar Torp, who was re-elected to Parliament in 1953 and 1957, succeeded Gerhardsen as President of the Storting, a position he held until his death.

Oscar Torp was County Governor until his death, albeit he was absent from the position for most of the time.

Oscar Torp was a member of the Labour Party central board and national board from 1945 to his death.

Oscar Torp had a cerebral haemorrhage in the early 1950s, which he kept secret to most his acquaintances, even family.