Henning G. Jensen (born 18 March 1950) was

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Aalborg Municipality Aalborg Municipality is a municipality in North Jutland Region on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark.Bridgwater, W. & Beatrice Aldrich. (1966) ''The Columbia-Viking Desk Encyclopedia''. Columbia University. p. 11. The municipality straddl ...

1998–2013, elected for the Danish

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. Henning G. Jensen is educated as

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from Aalborg teachers' college. 1974–2014 he was member of

Aalborg Aalborg (, , ) is Denmark's List of cities in Denmark by population, fourth largest town (behind Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense) with a population of 119,862 (1 July 2022) in the town proper and an Urban area, urban population of 143,598 (1 July ...

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. From 1982 to 1997 he was

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for the Social- and health administration in

, until he in 1998 became mayor. Aalborg Municipality At the municipal election in 2005 he got 13,650 personal votes, which was about 14 percent of all registered votes in

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1950 births Living people Mayors of places in Denmark Politicians from Aalborg Social Democrats (Denmark) politicians {{Denmark-politician-stub