Hans Kristian Hogsnes (17 October 1954 – 30 December 2010) was a Norwegian journalist and politician for the

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. He was born in

Tønsberg Tønsberg , historically Tunsberg, is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, eastern Norway, located around south-southwest of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak. The administrative ce ...

, finished his secondary education here in 1973 before attending Rønningen Folk High School from 1973 to 1974. He worked in the newspaper ''

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'' from 1975 to 1981 and 1984 to 1995, and edited the Conservative Party official newspaper ''Høyres avis'' from 1981 to 1984. Hogsnes was a member of Sem

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from 1975 to 1987, serving as deputy mayor from 1985 to 1987. He also chaired the school board from 1983 to 1987. He then, from 1987 to 1991, became a member of the executive committee of

council, after Sem Municipality merged with Tønsberg. From 1995 to 2001 he served as mayor of

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, and from 1999 to 2001 he chaired the county branch of the

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. He chaired

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Conservative Party from 1985 to 1991. He was elected to the

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from

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, but was not re-elected in

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. He was a member of the Standing Committee on Local Government. He had previously served as a deputy representative during the term 1985–1989.

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1954 births 2010 deaths Politicians from Tønsberg Norwegian journalists Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Mayors of places in Vestfold Members of the Storting 21st-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub