Oliver Effersøe

Oliver Johan Thomas Ludvig Effersøe (March 20, 1863 – March 8, 1933) was a Faroese official and politician for the Faroese Union Party.

[1] His surname comes from the Icelandic island of Effersey (Old Norse Örfirisey 'island of the ebb tide').

Effersøe also served as a postal official in Trongisvágur from 1883 to 1905, as a board member of the bank Færø Amts Sparekasse from 1918 to 1923, and as the claims commissioner for Suðuroy from 1894 to 1905.

Effersøe was also very active in the temperance movement and he worked as a politician for prohibition in the Faroe Islands.

Effersøe was the leader of the party from 1917 to 1924, and he also served as speaker of the Faroese Parliament from 1924 to 1928 and from 1930 to 1932.