Sten Heckscher is a Swedish

Sweden

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 lawyer

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 and Social Democratic politician

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. He is a son of the former right-wing politician Gunnar Heckscher

Gunnar Heckscher

Professor Gunnar Edvard Heckscher was a Swedish political scientist and leader of the Rightist Party , which later became the Moderate Party.-Biography:...

 and a grandson of economist

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 Eli Heckscher

Eli Heckscher

Eli Filip Heckscher was a Swedish political economist and economic historian.-Biography:...

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He graduated with a degree in law

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 from Uppsala University

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. Even though his father was leader of what later became the Moderate Party

Moderate Party

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, Heckscher engaged himself in Social Democratic politics. He served in numerous public positions in and out of government until Prime Minister

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 Ingvar Carlsson

Ingvar Carlsson

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 appointed him Minister of Industry and Employment

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 on the eve of the Social Democrats' election victory in 1994. In 1996, he resigned to become National Police Commissioner. Heckscher served until 2005 when he was appointed chief judge of the Administrative Court of Appeal in Stockholm. On 1 October 2007, he became the President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden

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