[1] With minor interruptions he was a member of the town council of Vadsø from 1869 to 1910, and also chaired the school board.
[1] He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1885, representing the urban constituency of Hammerfest, Vardø og Vadsø.
[1] Later, in 1877, Akre publicly supported the Finnish language newspaper for the minority in Finnmark, Ruijan Suomenkielinen Lehti.
Akre had been a teacher for Kven people in Alta, and was one of the few Norwegians who publicly supported the newspaper's existence.
[3] Akre was also a temperance activist, presiding over the meeting that founded the DNGTO (a splinter of IOGT) in June 1888.