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Maj-Len Grönholm (née Eriksson, 5 June 1952
Maj-Len Grönholm (née Eriksson, 5 June 1952 Helsinki
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– 22 June 2009, Ingå
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) was a Finnish
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politician
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(Swedish People's Party
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), councilwoman
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and a former Miss Finland
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. As a beauty pageant competitor, she won Miss Finland
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in 1972 under her maiden name of Eriksson and placed fourth in Miss Scandinavia
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It was sponsored by MTV3.
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in 1973. After she stopped competing, she worked as the principal at Källhagens skola, a Swedish-speaking junior high school in Lohja
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. In March 2009, she went on sick leave and was in the process of applying for a disability pension
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when she died.
For sixteen years, she served as a councilwoman for the cities of Kauniainen
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and Espoo
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. She also ran for parliament
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twice. Since the beginning of 2009, she also served as a councilwoman for the municipality of Ingå until her death.
Grönholm had breast cancer
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. She had surgery to remove the tumors twice, once in 2002 and once in 2004. By 2007 the disease had spread to her liver. Grönholm died of cancer in 2009.
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