Kjell Borgen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
19 Facts About Kjell Borgen
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Kjell Borgen served as Minister of Transport and Communications from 1986 to 1988, Minister of Local Government from 1988 to 1989 and again from 1990 to 1992.
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Kjell Borgen served as County Governor of Hedmark from 1993 until his death.
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Kjell Borgen was born in Oslo as a son of a worker and a housewife.
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Kjell Borgen attended the teacher's college at Elverum from 1960 to 1962.
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Kjell Borgen worked as a secondary school teacher in Rendalen from 1962 to 1966, and minored in Norwegian at the University of Oslo in 1964.
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Kjell Borgen chaired his local Labour Party chapter from 1964 to 1967, and the county chapter from 1976 to 1980.
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Kjell Borgen was a member of the Labour Party central committee from 1985 to 1993.
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Locally, Kjell Borgen became a member of Rendalen municipal council in 1965.
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Kjell Borgen was a member of Hedmark county council from 1967 to 1979, from 1874 to 1975 as deputy county mayor.
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Kjell Borgen served as President of the Lagting from 10 to 18 December 1979.
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When Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland formed her Second Cabinet in 1986, Kjell Borgen became Minister of Transport and Communications.
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Kjell Borgen remained so until 13 June 1988, when he became Norwegian Minister of Local Government and Labour.
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Kjell Borgen asked Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland to have Norden removed, and when Brundtland gave the green light, Kjell Borgen told this to then-assisting director-general Lindholt over the telephone.
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Kjell Borgen became slightly controversial due to the Oslo Airport localization debate.
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Kjell Borgen lost his position as Minister of Local Government and Labour when Brundtland's Second Cabinet fell in 1989.
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When Brundtland's Third Cabinet returned in 1990, Kjell Borgen returned as well, only under a slightly different name: Minister of Local Government.
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Kjell Borgen made his exit in September 1992, and sat through his last term in Parliament, to 1993.
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Kjell Borgen finished his career with the position as County Governor of Hedmark from 1993.