Bente Bakke (born 13 November 1942) is a Norwegian politician. She was a two-term MP for the

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. September 14, 2015 she was elected as member of the municipal council in Vestby, representing the

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Career

She was born in Oslo as a daughter of shipbroker Rolv Dahl-Jørgensen (1904–1980) and housewife Ragnhild Bjørneby (1908–2003). She was a paternal granddaughter of politician Erling Jørgensen. She finished secondary school in 1961 and

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in 1962, and worked as a secretary in Oslo, London and Mysen. She was a journalist in '' Østfold Bygdeblad'' from 1980 to 1981 and edited the magazine ''KFB-bladet'' from 1991 to 2001. From 1973 she was a member of the New People's Party for one year.Bakke, 1989: p. 53 She then joined the Conservative Party in 1974. She was a member of

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municipal council from 1975 to 1979, and chaired the local party chapter from 1978 to 1979. She served as a deputy representative to the

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from Østfold during the term 1981–1985, but during the entire term she filled in for

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who was a cabinet member. She was elected as a full representative in

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, and sat through the four-year term. In 1990 she released her memoirs from Parliament. She was a supervisory council member of the

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from 1990 to 1995 and a member of Statens kulturminneråd from 1991 to 1996. In 2011 she left the Conservative Party and joined the

. She is also active in the campaigns to stop

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's tar sand projects in Canada. She resides in Vestby.

References

1942 births Living people Writers from Oslo People from Eidsberg People from Vestby Norwegian journalists Norwegian magazine editors Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Green Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Østfold politicians Akershus politicians Norwegian women writers 20th-century Norwegian politicians Women magazine editors {{Norway-politician-1940s-stub