Henrik Svensen was 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...

 judge and politician for the Conservative Party

Conservative Party of Norway

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He was born in Askøy

Askøy

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, finished his secondary education in 1922 and got his law degree in 1926. He was a junior solicicor from 1926 to 1927, deputy judge in Hardanger District Court from 1928 to 1930, secretary in the Ministry of Justice

Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police

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 from 1933 to 1937 and in the city administration of Bergen

Bergen

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 from 1938 to 1942.

He was a member of Bergen city council from 1951 to 1961. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Bergen in 1954, and was re-elected on one occasion, notably chairing the Standing Committee on Defence

Standing Committee on Defence

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 in his second term. He worked as a presiding judge in Gulating Court of Appeal

Gulating Court of Appeal

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 from 1945 to 1961, and in Eidsivating Court of Appeal

Eidsivating Court of Appeal

Eidsivating Court of Appeal is the court of appeal located in Hamar, Norway. It serves the counties of Hedmark, Oppland and northern Akershus. In addition to Hamar, the court may meet in Lillehammer and Eidsvoll...

 briefly in 1961 before becoming County Governor of Aust-Agder, a post he held until 1974. He was president of Norges Forsvarsforening from 1962 to 1966.

Svensen died in August 2007, aged 103.