Guttorm Granum was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party

Conservative Party of Norway

The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...

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He was born in Vardal

Vardal

Vardal is a former municipality in Oppland county, Norway.It was created in 1837 as Vardal formannskapsdistrikt. According to the 1835 census the municipality had a population of 2,921...

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He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the Market towns of Hedmark and Oppland counties

Market towns of Hedmark and Oppland counties

The Market towns of Hedmark and Oppland counties was an electoral district for parliamentary elections in Norway. It comprised the market towns of Hamar and Kongsvinger in Hedmark county and Lillehammer and Gjøvik in Oppland county....

 in 1950, and was re-elected on two occasions. Midway in his third term, he died and was replaced by Trygve Owren

Trygve Owren

Trygve Owren was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oppland in 1965, but was not re-elected in 1969. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1958–1961 and 1961–1965...

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Granum was a member of Gjøvik

Gjøvik

is a town and a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Gjøvik.In 1861, the village of Gjøvik in the municipality of Vardal was granted town status and was separated from Vardal to form a separate municipality...

city council in the periods 1945–1947 and 1955–1958. He was a member of the national party board from 1950 to 1954.

Outside of politics, he worked as a wholesaler.