Erling Norvik (9 April 1928 – 31 December 1998) was a

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politician from the

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. Norvik was born in

Vadsø Vadsø (; sme, Čáhcesuolu; fkv, Vesisaari) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark County, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Vadsø, which was the administrative centre of the former Finnmark county. O ...

, the son of Erling Johannes Norvik, who served in the

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(''Stortinget'') from 1949 to 1961. The younger Norvik started his professional career as a

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for the regional paper

Finnmarken ''Finnmarken'' is a local newspaper published in Vadsø, Norway. It covers eastern Finnmark. It was established in 1899 by Adam Egede-Nissen and others. In 1942 ''Finnmarken'' was taken over by the national socialist occupant regime. They incorp ...

when he was 12 years old and was elected to Stortinget in 1961 from his native county,

Finnmark Finnmark (; se, Finnmárku ; fkv, Finmarku; fi, Ruija ; russian: Финнмарк) was a county in the northern part of Norway, and it is scheduled to become a county again in 2024. On 1 January 2020, Finnmark was merged with the neighbouri ...

, succeeding his father. Norvik was seated in the legislature for three successive periods, from 1961 to 1973 and then resigned to become the leader of the Conservative Party, a post he held from 1974–1980 and 1984–1986. He turned down a ministerial post in 1981, choosing instead to work in the prime minister office's of his party colleague

Kåre Willoch Kåre Isaachsen Willoch (; 3 October 1928 – 6 December 2021) was a Norwegian politician who served as the 30th prime minister of Norway from 1981 to 1986 and as leader of the Conservative Party from 1970 to 1974. He previously served as the ...

. In 1986 he was appointed Governor ("Fylkesmann") of

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county, as which he served for 12 years.

References

* 1928 births 1998 deaths Members of the Storting County governors of Norway Finnmark politicians People from Vadsø Leaders of the Conservative Party (Norway) 20th-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1920s-stub