Bjørn Unneberg (23 February 1928 – 5 January 2020) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was born in

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as a son of school inspector Agnar Unneberg (1903–1988) and housewife Bergljot Lærum (1901–1988). He graduated with the

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degree in 1949, and after worked as a research fellow on

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and culture at the University of Prague from 1949 to 1950, he continued working mostly in the legal system. He worked in

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from 1951 to 1953, then two years as a junior solicitor. From 1955 to 1963 he was a consultant in Widerøes Flyveselskap, then as an office manager in Anderson & Skjånes from 1963 to 1969. From 1968 to 1978 he edited the Centre Party periodical ''Senit''. He had settled on the farm Brudalen in

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in 1957, and from 1977 to 1997 he was the district stipendiary magistrate in

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. In 1963, during the short-lived

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, he was appointed State Secretary in the

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. He was elected to the

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from

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in 1969, and was re-elected on one occasion in 1973, serving two terms. In his last term he chaired the

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. On the local level he was a member of the school board from 1960 to 1963, and of the executive committee of Ullensaker

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from 1959 to 1971. From 1967 to 1977 he was a member of Akershus

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. He was a central board member of the Centre Party from 1977 to 1979.

References

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