Paul O. Løkke
Paul Olsen Løkke' (født 12. desember 1879 i Vågå, død 1937) var avisredaktør og politiker for Arbeiderpartiet og Norges soialdemokratiske parti.
Han sluttet seg til sin første fagforening i 1906 og i Tønsberg var han styremedlem av den lokale
He was born in Vågå. He joined his first trade union in 1906, and in the city of Tønsberg he was a board member of the local Union of Iron and Metalworkers from 1908 to 1912 and local Labour Party leader from 1910 to 1913.[1] He ran for Parliament in Tønsberg in 1912, but was not elected.[2]
He was the editor-in-chief of the Larvik newspaper Nybrott and the Hamar newspaper Demokraten before taking over Vestfold Arbeiderblad in 1920.[3] When his Labour Party split in 1921, Løkke joined the more right-wing Social Democratic Labour Party. He chaired the party chapter in Tønsberg fra 1923 to 1925.[1] He edited Buskerud Social-Demokrat from 1921 to 1923 and Vestfold Social-Demokrat from 1923 to 1925.[3] He died in 1937.[4]
References
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Mal:Cite encyclopedia
- ↑ Mal:Stort12
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 Mal:Cite book
- ↑ Maurseth, 1987: p. 607