Career
He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Øvre Romerike, Akershus amt in 1910, but was not re-elected for a second term. Foreign parts of the term, his seat was filled by Isak Kobro Collett. Born to farmers in Nes, Akershus, Opsahl took an agrarian education at Aas.
He worked with farming, but he also ran a timber merchant business, a sawmill, a mill and a peat dust factory.
