Frank Josef Jenssen (born 11 August 1969) is a Norwegian politician for the

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. He was elected to the

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for

Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag () was a county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. To the west is the No ...

in 2013 and in 2018, he became the first County Governor of the new

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...

county.

Career

Jenssen was a local politician in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

for a long time and served as political adviser to mayor

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. He was State Secretary for Erna Solberg in the

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from 2003 to 2005. He was the Conservative Party's candidate for mayor in Trondheim in the municipalities elections in 2003 and 2007, but the Labour Party with

Rita Ottervik Rita Irene Ottervik (born 11 September 1966 in Hitra) is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party who has served as the mayor of Trondheim since 2003. She has served as a secretary in the Workers' Youth League and political advisor at the ...

got the position of mayor both times. He began working in a communication company in 2008 and subsequently became Director of Communication in the

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. In the

2013 Norwegian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 8 and 9 September 2013 to elect all 169 members of the unicameral Storting. The centre-right coalition obtained 96 seats, while the incumbent red–green coalition government obtained 72 seats and ...

, he was nominated in second spot on the Sør-Trøndelag Conservative Party ballotFrank Jenssen på vei til Stortinget
Adresseavisen. Retrieved 8 November 2013 and got elected as representative number 5 from Sør-Trøndelag. He was a member of the

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. In 2018, he became the first County Governor of the new

county.

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Frank Jenssen
at Høyre.no. Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Politicians from Trondheim Norwegian state secretaries 1969 births Living people 21st-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1960s-stub