Even Thorsen
Even Thorsen was a Norwegian sailor, farmer, and representative at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll.
Even Thorsen was born at the Bjornes farm at Austre Moland, in Arendal in Aust-Agder, Norway. In his youth, he went to sea working as a deckhand. During the Napoleonic wars, he was a prisoner of war in the United Kingdom from 1807, returning to Norway in 1810. As an adult, he lived with his family at Blekestrand, a farm in Flosta in Aust-Agder.
He represented the Royal Norwegian Navy at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814. Thorsen sympathized with the Independence Party. In 1857, the Norwegian Parliament granted him an annual honorary pension three years prior to his death.
