Harald Johan Løbak
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Harald Johan Løbak was a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 politician for the Norwegian Labour Party
Norwegian Labour Party
The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

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He was born in Trysil
Trysil
Trysil is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Innbygda...

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He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hedmark
Hedmark
is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Akershus. The county administration is in Hamar.Hedmark makes up the northeastern part of Østlandet, the southeastern part of the country. It includes a long part of the borderline with Sweden, Dalarna County and Värmland County. The...

 in 1945, and was re-elected on six occasions.

He was the Minister of Agriculture from May 1956 to April 1960 during the third cabinet Gerhardsen
Third cabinet Gerhardsen
Gerhardsen's Third Cabinet governed Norway between 22 January 1955 and 28 August 1963. The Labour Party cabinet was led by Einar Gerhardsen. It had the following composition:-Cabinet members:-State Secretaries:-References:* - Regjeringen.no...

. During the period, he was replaced in the Norwegian Parliament by Haldis Tjernsberg
Haldis Tjernsberg
Haldis Tjernsberg was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.She was born in Sande.She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hedmark in 1961, and was re-elected on one occasion. She had previously served as a deputy representative in the periods 1954–1957 and 1957–1961...

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On the local level, he was a member of Trysil
Trysil
Trysil is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Innbygda...

 municipality council from 1928 to 1955, serving as mayor from 1937 except for the period 1940–1945 during the German occupation of Norway. He chaired the county party chapter from 1952 to 1968.
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