Oscar Öhman

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Portrait of Oscar Öhman

Eric Oscar Öhman (1 December 1886 – 16 January 1947) was a Swedish politician. He was a member of parliament (Second Chamber) 1929-1932 för

Västernorrlands län.[1]

He was the son of Erik Öhman (farmer and shoemaker) and Anna Svedlund.[1] In 1916 he became a member of the municipal council of Timrå.[1] Towards the end of 1919 Oscar Öhman founded the newspaper Medelpads-Kuriren (which later became Norrlands-Kuriren).[2][3] In the same year he became vice chairman of the Timrå municipal council.[1]

He was a key leader of the Communist Party in Sundsvall.[4] In 1927 he became a member of the Västernorrlands län county council.[1] When the Communist Party underwent a major split in 1929, Oscar Öhman sided with the Karl Kilbom faction.[5][6]

Öhman lost his parliamentary seat in the 1932 election.[7] Like many other personalities in the Kilbom faction, he later joined to the Social Democratic Party.[4]

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  2. ^ Ture Nerman (1950). Allt var rött: minne och redovisning. Kooperativa förbundets bokförlag. p. 284.
  3. ^ Karl Kilbom (1954). Ur mitt livs äventyr. Tidens förlag. p. 189.
  4. ^ a b Lars Åke Augustsson (1978). Lars Ahlin och Sundsvall. Sundsvalls tidn. p. 28.
  5. ^ Ture Nerman (1954). Trots allt: minne och redovisning. Kooperativa förbundets bokförlag. p. 191.
  6. ^ Lars Furuland (1971). Synpunkter på Lars Ahlin. Aldus/Bonnier. pp. 18–20.
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