Marie Borge Refsum 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, who served as a member of the Conservative Party

Conservative Party of Norway

The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...

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She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus

Akershus

- Geography :The county is conventionally divided into the traditional districts Follo and Romerike, which fill the vast part of the county, as well as the small exclave west of Oslo that consists of Asker and Bærum...

 during the term 1973–1977.

On the local level, she was a member of the executive committee of Asker

Asker

Asker is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Viken traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Asker. The municipality is a suburb of Oslo, the national capital...

 municipal council, having been elected in the so-called "women's coup" where four women (Tove Billington Bye

Tove Billington Bye

Tove Billington Bye was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus during the terms 1973–1977 and 1977–1981....

, Berit Ås

Berit Ås

Berit Ås is a Norwegian politician, professor of social psychology, and feminist. She was the first leader of the Socialist Left Party and served as a Member of Parliament 1973–1977. She was also a deputy member of parliament 1969–1973  and 1977–1981...

, Marie Borge Refsum and Kari Bjerke Andreassen) led a successful campaign to get women elected to the municipal council.

Refsum is the grandmother of researcher Alexander Refsum Jensenius

Alexander Refsum Jensenius

Alexander Refsum Jensenius is a Norwegian researcher and musician.Jensenius is educated in music, computer science, physics and mathematics. He was awarded a Master of Arts degree in Music technology by the University of Oslo in 2002, and was awarded a doctorate by the same institution in 2008...

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