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About Thorolf Bugge
- Thorolf Bugge (1 October 1879 – 21 May 1935) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour and Communist parties. He was born in Heddal as a son of district physician Johan Carl Bugge (1847–1902) and Christine Theodora Drolsum (1854–1882).
- He was a grandson of Ulrik Bugge.
- He had middle school education, and also studied at Bergen Technical School.
- He was hired at a post office in Vardø in 1898, and when postmaster Adam Egede-Nissen was a member of Parliament, Bugge was acting postmaster in Vardø from 1901 to 1906.
- He then started working at a farm and in the company Sydvaranger.
- He became chairman of the trade union Nordens Klippe from 1907 to 1908, but for his activism he was blacklisted.
- He continued as a farmer until 1916, then as a manager in Sør-Varanger provisioning council until 1917, then as a municipal secretary.
- He moved from his farm to Kirkenes.He had entered politics, and was a member of the executive committee of Sør-Varanger municipal council from 1910 to 1922; also a school board member from 1910 to 1916.
- In the 1921 Norwegian parliamentary election he was elected to the Parliament of Norway.
- He was a member of the Standing Committee on Roads.
- In 1923, before the parliamentary term was over, he left the Labour Party and joined the Communist Party.
- He headed their ballot in the subsequent elections of 1924, 1927, 1930 and 1933, but was never again re-elected.He was married to cultural worker Kathrine Bugge (née Hanssen, 1877–1951) from December 1922.
- He died in May 1935, aged 55.
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