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About Robert Rafn
- Robert Rafn (27 February 1878 – 1964) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in Porsgrund as a son of shipmaster Hans Christian Rafn (1833–1899) and Hanna Annette Halvorsen (1847–1939).
- He took technical education in Norway in 1895, and graduated in 1898 from Technicum Mittweida.
- From 1899 to 1905 he worked as an assistant of Thomas A.
- Edison in Orange, New Jersey.
- He later worked as a chemist at a works in Berlin before running his own company named Irradiar in Nuremberg until 1915.
- He returned to Norway and settled in Moss.
- He was a manager at Moss Melkefabrik from 1916 to 1924 and technical director at Moss Aktiemølle from 1925 to 1945.
- He was also a supervisory council member of Hafslund.
- After 1945 he worked as a consultant.From 1925 to 1931 he was a member of the executive committee of Moss city council.
- He chaired the local party chapter from 1934 to 1937.
- In the 1936 Norwegian parliamentary election he was elected to the Parliament of Norway from the Market towns of Østfold and Akershus counties.
- Absent for most of 1938 and 1939, Rafn's seat was filled by Carl Sigurd Winther and Ragnhild Rød.Rafn married a daughter of Jørgen Christian Knudsen, who was himself a brother of Gunnar Knudsen and son of Christen Knudsen.
- Rafn was a brother-in-law of Finn Christian Knudsen and Christen Knudsen, Jr..
- He died in 1964 and is buried in Porsgrunn.
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