John Utheim

Who was John Utheim?

John Utheim was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.

He graduated with a cand.theol. degree in 1874. He worked as a teacher, from 1878 at the Norwegian Naval Academy in Horten. He became an associate professor there in 1890.

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Jarlsberg og Larvik in 1892, and sat until 1894. He was a member of Horten municipality council between 1883 and 1902, serving as mayor from 1899 to 1901. In 1902 he became County Governor of Sogn og Fjordane, which he held until his death in 1910.