Bjørn Skau is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

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In 1959, during the third cabinet Gerhardsen

Third cabinet Gerhardsen

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, he was appointed personal secretary (today known as political advisor) in the Ministry of Social Affairs. He was promoted to state secretary in 1961, but lost the position temporarily in 1963, when the cabinet Lyng

Cabinet Lyng

Lyng's Cabinet governed Norway between 28 August 1963 and 25 September 1963. It was the first in 28 years not to be led by the Norwegian Labour Party. It was a centre-right coalition government of the Conservative Party, Centre Party, Christian Democratic Party and Liberal Party led by John Lyng...

 held office. When the fourth cabinet Gerhardsen

Fourth cabinet Gerhardsen

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 held office from 1963 to 1965, Skau was again state secretary. During the short-lived first cabinet Brundtland in 1981, Skau was appointed Minister of Justice and the Police

Minister of Justice and the Police (Norway)

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On the local level he was a member of Larvik

Larvik

is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. Larvik kommune - has about 41 364 inhabitants and covers 530 km2....

 municipality council from 1951 to 1957 and of the executive committee of Drammen

Drammen

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 city council from 1983 to 1987. He chaired the party chapter in Buskerud

Buskerud

is a county in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark, and Vestfold. The county administration is located in Drammen.-Geography:...

 county from 1981 to 1986.

He also headed the health administration in Buskerud from 1978 to 1986, and then became director of Buskerud sentralsykehus, a post he held until 1993. The temperance movement

Temperance movement

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arian Skau led the Norwegian branch of the International Organisation of Good Templars

International Organisation of Good Templars

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from 1991 to 1997.