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Reidar Strømdahl

Norwegian politician (1913–2006)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ7310027 ↗
Source-derived summary

Reidar Strømdahl (12 May 1913 – 31 December 2006) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

He was born in Skoger.

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Vestfold in 1950, and was re-elected on four occasions.

References

"Reidar Strømdahl" (in Norwegian). Storting.

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“Reidar Strømdahl” enters the record as norwegian politician (1913–2006). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Reidar, Strømdahl and Norwegian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1913, 2006, 1950—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1913-05-12. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Reidar, Strømdahl and Norwegian.
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Why this record matters

“Reidar Strømdahl” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Reidar, Strømdahl and Norwegian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7310027. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1913, 2006 and 1950.

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This entry incorporates text from “Reidar Strømdahl” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.