Peder E. Vorum

He was born at Steinnes in Sparbu as a son of farmers Christoffer Olsen Vorum (1843–1915) and Karoline Elvine Ertsaas (1855–1890).

He attended Ogndal Folk High School from 1901 to 1902, and graduated from Levanger Teachers' College in 1905.

[1] He stood for parliamentary election in 1918, representing the Labour Democrats, but finished a distant fourth among the four candidates.

[4][5] During the German occupation of Norway he joined the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling in the autumn of 1940.

[6] On 24 September 1948, during the legal purge in Norway after World War II he was convicted of treason and sentenced to five years of forced labour and loss of his job.