Árni Steinar Jóhannsson (12 June 1953 – 1 November 2015) was an

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ic politician and member of the

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. A member of the

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, he represented the Northeastern constituency from May 1999 to May 2003. Árni was born on 12 June 1953 in

Dalvík Dalvík () is the main village of the Icelandic municipality of Dalvíkurbyggð. Its population is approximately 1,400.

. He was the son of fisherman Jóhann Helgason and shopkeeper Valrós Árnadóttir. His father was amongst several sailors who were killed during a severe blizzard off northern Iceland on 9 April 1963. Árni was the

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of Althing member

Sigríður Anna Þórðardóttir Sigríður Anna Þórðardóttir (born 14 May 1946) is an Icelandic politician and former Minister for the Environment in the cabinet of Halldór Ásgrímsson The Cabinet of Halldór Ásgrímsson in Iceland was formed 15 September 2004. Cab ...

. After obtaining a general education diploma in Dalvík in 1969, Árni moved to the US to study at the Memorial High School in

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. He then studied at an agricultural college (1971–1974) and at the

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(1974–1979). He was a Horticultural Director (1979–1986) and Environmental Director (1986–1999) for the

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. Árni was substitute member of the

for

Steingrímur J. Sigfússon Steingrímur Jóhann Sigfússon (born 4 August 1955) is an Icelandic politician. He has been a member of the Althing (Icelandic parliament) since 1983 and was the founding chairman of the Left-Green Movement (''Vinstri hreyfingin – grænt fra ...

in November 1996 and from October 1998 to November 1998, and for Jón Bjarnason from October 2003 to November 2003 and in October 2006. He was elected to the Althing at the 1999 parliamentary election. He was Fourth Deputy Speaker of the Althing from June 1999 to May 2003. After leaving the Althing, Árni was the Environmental Director for the municipality of

Fjarðabyggð Fjarðabyggð () is a municipality located in eastern Iceland, in the Eastern Region. History The municipality was formed in 1998 with the union of the former municipalities of Eskifjörður, Neskaupstaður and Reyðarfjörður. Austurbyggð, ...

until his death. He was on the board of energy company RARIK from 2008 to 2014 and served as its chairman from 2009 to 20141. He died on 1 November 2015 at a nursing home in Dalvík due to cancer. He never married and had no children.

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