Hans G. Jensen
Politician
1856 – 1922
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Who was Hans G. Jensen?
Hans G. Jensen was a Norwegian trade unionist, politician, and tailor.
Jensen was born in Horsens, Denmark in 1856. He moved to Sandefjord, Norway in 1879, before settling in Kristiania in 1883. He became involved in the Norwegian labour movement, and was the leader of the Norwegian Labour Party from 1888 to 1889. He co-founded a tailors' union in 1892, and became the first leader of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions in 1899. He held this position until 1900.
Jensen died in Kristiania in 1922.
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