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About Oddmund Vik
- Oddmund Jakobsen Vik (19 April 1858 – 12 February 1930) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was born in Vik i Øystese as the son of farmer Jakob Larsen Vik (1828-1925) and his wife Magnhild Nilsdotter Laupsa (1828-1914).
- He graduated from the teacher's college at Stord in 1877, and worked as a teacher in Sund in 1878, at Sagatun folk high school the next year, in Telemark from 1879, in Askov from 1882 and Andebu from 1884 to 1888.
- In 1885 he wrote a piece in Dagbladet, "Fra Ekserserpladsen Tvildemoen", which was seen as anti-military agitation.
- He was sentenced to 40 days in prison by a military court; the sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court.
- He was also ordered to pay NOK 100 in costs.
- However, the government of Norway changed the sentencing to ten days in prison and no costs.In 1888 he was hired as chief editor of Rogalands Folkeblad.
- The next year the name was changed to Stavanger Avis, and Vik was hired as subeditor under new editor Alexander Kielland.
- He then worked as chief editor again from 1890 to 1908.
- He was the chairman of the board of Venstres Presseforening from 1899 to 1900.
- He was active in local politics, serving as deputy mayor of Stavanger from 1898 to 1901 and 1904 to 1912, and mayor from 1913 to 1914.
- In 1900 he was elected to the Norwegian Parliament, representing the constituency Stavanger og Haugesund.
- He sat through one term, but was later re-elected in 1910.In 1914 Vik was appointed County Governor of Romsdals Amt.
- The county was shortly thereafter renamed Møre, and is now known as Møre og Romsdal.
- During the First World War he briefly left this office, to lead the newly created Ministry of Provisioning in the second cabinet Knudsen from July 1916 to November 1917.
- When he left this position, he returned as County Governor of Møre, leaving in 1928 to become a pensioner.
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