Eivind Eckbo

Eivind Eckbo
Leader of the Anders Lange's Party
In office
18 October 1974 – 26 May 1975
Preceded byAnders Lange
Succeeded byArve Lønnum
Personal details
Born(1927-08-10)10 August 1927
Oslo, Norway
Died7 May 2017(2017-05-07) (aged 89)
Political partyProgress Party

Eivind Eckbo (10 August 1927 – 7 May 2017) was a Norwegian politician, lawyer and farmer.

Biography

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While working as a lawyer in Bø i Telemark, he stood as the second candidate of Anders Lange's Party on the Telemark ballot in the 1973 Norwegian parliamentary election.[1] He was the interim chairman of Anders Lange's Party from the death of party chairman and founder Anders Lange in 1974, until 1975.[2] He was later the deputy chairman and held other offices by the same party after it changed its name into the Progress Party.

Personal life

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He was married to Margaret Eckbo, also a politician for the Progress Party, of which she got introduced to through her husband. She had two children from before they got married, he had 7.[3] Eckbo died on 7 May 2017, aged 89.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Norges Offisielle Statistikk. Stortingsvalget 1973. Hefte I." (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway.
  2. ^ Vikre, Thorleif (12 March 2009). "Nå er vi nest største parti i landet!". Telemark FrP (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 16 July 2011.
  3. ^ Lorentzen, Trude (10 August 2005). "Ekstrem opprydning". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  4. ^ Dahl, Carl Alfred (9 May 2017). "Eivind Eckbo er død". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 9 May 2017.