Background
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.
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Thorolf Bugge
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Education
He had middle school education, and also studied at Bergen Technical School.
Career
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.
In the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1921 he was elected to the Parliament of Norway. 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 died in May 1935, aged 55.
Membership
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 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.
He was a member of the Standing Committee on Roads.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Norwegian Labour Party