Career
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the Market towns of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark in 1945. He was not listet at the conservative party ballot, but was elected by popular votes (cumulative votes, where voters are free to remove a person from the ballot and replace that name/person with another). He was not re-elected in 1949.
He was born in Oslo, enrolled as a student in 1917 and graduated as candidate.jur. in 1922.
He was acting stipendiary magistrate (byfogd) in Tromsø from 1924 to 1926 and chief administrative officer (rådmann) of Bodø from 1928 to 1967.