Olivia Lovisa Nordgren, Swedish typographer and Politician of the Social Democrats. She was an important part in the work against powerty in the 1930s in Sweden and one of the most known woman politicians in Sweden of that time.

Olivia Nordgren worked as a typographer from 1907. She was elected to the town council

Town council

A town council is a democratically elected form of government for small municipalities or civil parishes. A council may serve as both the representative and executive branch....

 of Trelleborg

Trelleborg

Trelleborg is a locality and the seat of Trelleborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 25,643 inhabitants in 2005. It is the southernmost town in Sweden.-History:...

 in 1915 - this was before female suffrage, but women were eligible in local elections - in to the Executive Committee of the Social Democratic party in 1924 and to the parliament in 1926. She was a member of the food provision committee and active in the pension politic. She had a good relationship with Per Albin Hansson

Per Albin Hansson

Per Albin Hansson , was a Swedish politician, chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time Prime Minister in four governments between 1932 and 1946, governing all that period save for a short-lived crisis in the summer of 1936, which he ended by forming a coalition government with his...

, who used to say, that if he was ever to appoint a woman to the post of minister, then it would be her. She was given Illis Quorum

Illis Quorum

Illis Quorum ["For Those Whose Labors Have Deserved It"], today the highest award that can be conferred upon an individual Swedish citizen by the Government of Sweden....

in recognition for her work in the reduction of poverty.