Trygve Haugeland Explained

Office:Minister of the Environment
Term Start:18 October 1972
Term End:5 March 1973
Primeminister:Lars Korvald
Predecessor:Olav Gjærevoll
Successor:Helga Gitmark
Office2:Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Term Start2:1 January 1958
Term End2:30 September 1961
Constituency2:Vest-Agder
Office3:Deputy Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Term Start3:4 December 1945
Term End3:31 December 1953
Constituency3:Vest-Agder
Birth Date:18 March 1914
Birth Place:Lyngdal, Norway
Party:Centre
Nationality:Norwegian

Trygve Haugeland (18 March 1914  - 10 December 1998) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.

Biography

He was born in Lyngdal.

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Vest-Agder in 1958, but was not re-elected in 1961. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1945 - 1949 and 1950 - 1953.

He was the Minister of the Environment in 1972 - 1973 during the cabinet Korvald. He left the post seven months before the tenure of the cabinet ended.

On the local level he was member of Lyngdal municipality council from 1945 to 1955, serving as deputy mayor from 1947.