Marie Jepsen (27 March 1940 – 20 October 2018) was a Danish politician who served in the
European Parliament
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Marie Jepsen was born on 27 March 1940 in the town of Nørre Nissum in
West Jutland
Jutland ( da, Jylland ; german: Jütland ; ang, Ēota land ), known anciently as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula ( la, Cimbricus Chersonesus; da, den Kimbriske Halvø, links=no or ; german: Kimbrische Halbinsel, links=no), is a peninsula of ...
. Following her marriage in 1963, Jepsen moved to the town of
Silkeborg
Silkeborg () is a Danish town with a population of 49,747 (1 January 2022).Aarhus City Council in 1984.
Jepsen ran for the
European Parliament
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in the 1984 election as a member of the Conservative People's Party. Jepsen, who stated she ran because there were not enough women on the ballot, won election. Jepsen sat as a member of the
European Democrats
The European Democrats were a loose association of conservative political parties in Europe. It was a political group in the European Parliament from 1979 until 1992, when it became a subgroup of the European People's Party–European Democr ...
1989 election
The following elections occurred in the year 1989.
Africa
* 1989 Beninese parliamentary election
* 1989 Botswana general election
* 1989 Equatorial Guinean presidential election
* 1989 People's Republic of the Congo parliamentary election
* 19 ...
and served until 1994.
Jepsen died on 20 October 2018 at the age of 78. Jepsen had three children with her husband, who died in 2002.