Torgeir Vraa

Torgeir Tarjei Olavsson Vraa (16 May 1868 – 21 June 1934) was a Norwegian educator, newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.

Biography He was born on the Rui farm in Moland Municipality in Telemark. Upon graduating from Asker Seminary in 1889, he was hired as a school teacher in Modum Municipality. He married Maren Sofie Hansen (1870–1935) in October 1892. Vraa joined the Liberal Party, where Christopher Hornsrud was a leading figure on the left wing, but in 1897, the two joined the Norwegian Labour Party.

From 1902 to 1904, he was a journalist in the Labour Party newspaper Social-Demokraten in Kristiania (now Oslo). From 17 May 1905, he was the first editor-in-chief of the newly established Labour Party newspaper Fremtiden in Drammen, where he contributed to defining local journalism as a genre.

He did not join any splinter party in 1921 to 1923, but stayed in the Labour Party,

Legacy A statue of him by Dyre Vaa was raised at Gamle Kirkeplass in Drammen during 1936. Streets or squares have also been named after him including Torgeir Vraas plass in Drammen and Torgeir Vraas plass in Skien.