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Erling Wikborg
Politician
1894 – 1992
Who was Erling Wikborg?
Erling Wikborg was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus in 1945, and was re-elected from Oslo on two occasions.
Wikborg held a number of other prominent posts. He was the second leader of the Christian Democratic Party from 1951 to 1955, and a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in 1965 and from 1967 to 1970. From August to September 1963 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs during the short-lived centre-right Cabinet of John Lyng.
A lawyer by profession, he was born in Drammen, graduated with a cand.jur. degree in 1918, and studied international law in France and England in 1922 and 1923.
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- Born
- Nov 5, 1894
Norway - Profession
- Lived in
- Oslo
- Died
- Apr 6, 1992
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on July 23, 2013
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