Thore Myrvang

Who is Thore Myrvang?

Thore Embretsen Myrvang was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Liberal Party and the Labour Democrats.

He was born in Tynset as a son of farmers Embret Thoresen Myrvang and Gisken Krogseng. He took teacher's education at Hamar Seminary in 1877, and was a teacher in Stor-Elvdal until 1916. He also owned the farm Westgård from 1896. From 1911 to 1915 he was the acting school director of the Diocese of Hamar, being a substitute for Olav Andreas Eftestøl who was an MP.

Myrvang served as mayor of Stor-Elvdal from 1901 to 1904, 1913 to 1916 and 1922 to 1925. During the last period he also chaired the county council. He then represented the Labour Democrats, which he joined after the split from the Liberal Party. For both these parties, he served a total of six terms in the Parliament of Norway. The first five terms were continuous, with Myrvang winning elections in 1894, 1897, 1900, 1903 and 1906. On the latter occasion, the system with single-member constituencies had been implemented, and Myrvang won because he gathered the social democratic vote.