Karen Grønn-Hagen (27 November 1903 – 19 December 1982) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She was born in

Tynset Tynset is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tynset. Other villages in Tynset include Fådalen, Fåset, Telnes ...

. She was elected to the

Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ...

from

Hedmark Hedmark () was a county in Norway before 1 January 2020, bordering Trøndelag to the north, Oppland to the west, Akershus to the south, and Sweden to the east. The county administration is in Hamar. Hedmark and Oppland counties were merged int ...

in 1961. From August to September 1963 she served as the Minister of Family and Consumer Affairs during the short-lived centre-right

cabinet Lyng The Lyng Cabinet governed Norway between 28 August 1963 and 25 September 1963. It was the first in 28 years not to be led by the Norwegian Labour Party. It was a centre-right coalition government of the Conservative Party, Centre Party, Chris ...

. During her stint as cabinet member her place in the Parliament was taken by Karstein Seland. Grønn-Hagen had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the term 1954–1957, but a year into this term she replaced the deceased

Einar Frogner Einar Frogner (19 May 1893 – 10 July 1955) was the leader of the Norwegian Agrarian Party 1948–1954, and Minister of Agriculture in 1945 in the Unification Cabinet of Einar Gerhardsen Einar Henry Gerhardsen (; 10 May 1897 – 19 September ...

as a regular representative. Grønn-Hagen was a member of

municipality council from 1951 to 1959, and became deputy mayor in 1959–1960.

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* 1903 births 1982 deaths People from Tynset Centre Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Hedmark politicians Ministers of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion of Norway Women members of the Storting 20th-century Norwegian women politicians 20th-century Norwegian politicians Women government ministers of Norway {{Norway-politician-1900s-stub