Eivind Eckbo is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 politician

Politician

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, lawyer

Lawyer

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 and farmer

Farmer

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While working as a lawyer in Bø i Telemark, he stood as the second candidate of Anders Lange's Party

Progress Party (Norway)

The Progress Party is a political party in Norway which identifies as conservative liberal and libertarian. The media has described it as conservative and right-wing populist...

 on the Telemark

Telemark

is a county in Norway, bordering Vestfold, Buskerud, Hordaland, Rogaland and Aust-Agder. The county administration is in Skien. Until 1919 the county was known as Bratsberg amt.-Location:...

 ballot in the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1973

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1973

-Results:¹A coalition of the Socialist People's Party , the Communist Party of Norway , and anti-European Economic Community individuals from the Labour Party. The coalition evolved into the Socialist Left Party in 1975....

. He was the interim chairman of Anders Lange's Party from the death of party chairman and founder Anders Lange

Anders Lange

Anders Sigurd Lange was a Norwegian politician and the eponymous founder of the political party Anders Lange's Party . He was a charismatic right-wing public speaker who objected to high taxes, state-regulations and public bureaucracy.Lange has been described as a man who went his own ways...

 in 1974, until 1975. He has later been deputy chairman and held other offices by the same party after it changed its name into the Progress Party

Progress Party (Norway)

The Progress Party is a political party in Norway which identifies as conservative liberal and libertarian. The media has described it as conservative and right-wing populist...

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He is married to Margaret Eckbo, also a politician for the Progress Party, of which she got introduced to through her husband. They both had two children from before they got married.