Arne Magnussen

Who was Arne Magnussen?

Arne Magnussen was a Norwegian trade unionist, newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and the Social Democratic Labour parties.

He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from the urban constituency of Moss og Drøbak in 1919. In 1921, when the Social Democratic Labour Party split away from the Labour Party, he joined the Social Democrats and was re-elected in the newly created constituency Market towns of Østfold and Akershus. He was re-elected on one occasion in 1924, but not on the next occasion in 1927. In 1930, having rejoined the Labour Party, he was elected for the last time, and sat through the term which ended in 1933.

Born in Moss as the son of a school teacher, he started his career as a mail and newspaper carrier. He eventually became involved in making the newspapers, as editor-in-chief of Moss Socialdemokrat from 1913. He founded Ekstrabladet in 1920, which upon the party split in 1921 became a local organ for the Social Democratic Labour Party. It was later renamed Moss Arbeiderblad. He was editor-in-chief of that newspaper from 1922 until the party reconciliation in 1927. He then worked in the Labour Party newspaper Moss og Omegn Arbeiderblad until 1933.