Background
He was born at Karset farm in Vang, Hedmark.
member of the Parliament of Norway
He was born at Karset farm in Vang, Hedmark.
He attended Sagatun Folk High School, but was a farmer from 1884.
He bought the farm Hol in Vang and lived there. He was elected to Vang municipal council, and served as mayor of Vang from 1904 to 1913. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1900, representing the constituency of Hedemarkens Amt.
He only served one term, after declining a renomination in 1903.
In 1906 he ran for general election again, in the constituency Søndre Hedemarken (the constituency system had been redrawn). He officially ran for the Liberal Party, but after the events of 1905 he associated himself more with the more right-winged Coalition Party.
In the second round, Myrvang acquired the social democratic vote and Karset was edged out with 1,823 against Myrvang"s 1,967 votes. Karset did not stand for general election again.
Karset died in October 1914, only 55 years old, after a long-term illness.
He was the manager of Vangs Brænderi from 1884 to 1909, then a board member of the same company. He managed the local Bank of Norway branch (in Hamar) in the last nine years of his life, was a board member of Hamar, Vang og Furnes Kommunale Kraftselskap, of Riksskattestyret and the county commission on railways.