Svein Gunnar Morgenlien, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian politician
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About Svein Gunnar Morgenlien
- Svein Gunnar Morgenlien (13 May 1922 – 22 September 2016) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Aurskog as a son of smallholder and sawmill manager Johan Morgenlien (1878–1948) and housewife Ovidia Davidsen (1882–1970).
- He spent his working career as a forest worker and sawmill manager from 1937 to 1959 and forest manager from 1959 to 1962.Morgenlien was involved in the trade union Norsk skog- og landarbeiderforbund, which in 1988 merged to form the United Federation of Trade Unions.
- From 1956 to 1960 he was a national board member, from 1962 to 1965 he was a secretary, from 1965 to 1979 he was treasurer and from 1979 to 1987 he was chairman.
- In the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions he was a member of the supervisory board from 1965 to 1977 and secretariat from 1979 to 1987.He was a board member of his local party chapter from 1955 to 1972 and the regional chapter from 1968 to 1973.
- He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from the constituency Akershus during the terms 1961–1965, 1969–1973, 1973–1977 and 1977–1981.
- Midway in the third term, the regular representative Tønnes Andenæs died and Morgenlien himself became a regular representative.
- In the entire fourth term he covered for cabinet members Inger Louise Valle and Helen Marie Bøsterud.
- He was a member of the Standing Committee on Public Administration during the first two years, and then of the Standing Committee on Agriculture.Morgenlien was a board member of the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority from 1981 to 1988.
- He died at the age of 94 on 22 September 2016.
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