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Kjell Borgen
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<h2 id="early-life-and-career">Early life and career</h2> <p>He was born in <a href="/facts/Oslo/PRJtFYUl">Oslo</a> as a son of a worker and a housewife. He attended the teacher's college at <a href="/facts/Elverum/Gb8M4aLU">Elverum</a> from 1960 to 1962. He worked as a secondary school teacher in <a href="/facts/Rendalen/Bhwxxmds">Rendalen</a> from 1962 to 1966, and also minored in Norwegian at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Oslo/uYPDcgpU">University of Oslo</a> in 1964. From 1967 to 1972 he worked as headmaster at a combined primary-secondary school, and from 1972 he had a municipal administrative job.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p><p>Borgen chaired his regional branch of the <a href="/facts/Workers%2527_Youth_League_(Norway)/5EXXmrm5">Workers' Youth League</a> from 1957 to 1959. He chaired his local Labour Party chapter from 1964 to 1967, and the county chapter from 1976 to 1980. He was a member of the Labour Party central committee from 1985 to 1993. Locally, Borgen became a member of Rendalen <a href="/facts/Municipal_council_(Norway)/nrnR6T5p">municipal council</a> in 1965. In 1967 he became mayor, serving until 1977. He was a member of <a href="/facts/Hedmark/jXvpTkww">Hedmark</a> <a href="/facts/County_council_(Norway)/dCt2LMTv">county council</a> from 1967 to 1979, from 1874 to 1975 as deputy county mayor (<i>fylkesvaraordfører</i>).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="national-politics">National politics</h2> <p>In 1977, he was <a href="/facts/1977_Norwegian_parliamentary_election/243nGa2o">elected</a> to the <a href="/facts/Parliament_of_Norway/JrDWe9Fu">Parliament of Norway</a> from Hedmark, and he was re-elected in <a href="/facts/1981_Norwegian_parliamentary_election/l1h05KVN">1981</a>, <a href="/facts/1985_Norwegian_parliamentary_election/p4zU8SVG">1985</a> and <a href="/facts/1989_Norwegian_parliamentary_election/jmBSf3xg">1989</a>. He served as <a href="/facts/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Lagting/6rmhT03F">President of the Lagting</a> from 10 to 18 December 1979. When <a href="/facts/Prime_Minister_of_Norway/Y1wx9o2V">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/facts/Gro_Harlem_Brundtland/S7pnXhKd">Gro Harlem Brundtland</a> formed her <a href="/facts/Brundtland%2527s_Second_Cabinet/RFPtjf5q">Second Cabinet</a> in 1986, Borgen became <a href="/facts/Minister_of_Transport_and_Communications_(Norway)/W2AGygLX">Minister of Transport and Communications</a>. He remained so until 13 June 1988, when he became <a href="/facts/Minister_of_Local_Government_and_Regional_Development_(Norway)/xXRgfULb">Norwegian Minister of Local Government and Labour</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>According to <a href="/facts/Tore_Lindholt/fJhNbX9h">Tore Lindholt</a>, who released a book about the <a href="/facts/Norwegian_State_Railways/Wkh0UtEy">Norwegian State Railways</a> in 1990, the same year as he served as acting director-general for the second time, Borgen was instrumental in removing <a href="/facts/Robert_Nord%25C3%25A9n/oUXUhKcB">Robert Nordén</a> as director-general of the State Railways. Borgen asked <a href="/facts/Prime_Minister_of_Norway/Y1wx9o2V">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/facts/Gro_Harlem_Brundtland/S7pnXhKd">Gro Harlem Brundtland</a> to have Nordén removed, and when Brundtland gave the green light, Borgen told this to then-assisting director-general Lindholt over the telephone.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> Borgen also became slightly controversial due to the <a href="/facts/Oslo_Airport_localization_controversy/KJbgUKcH">Oslo Airport localization debate</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> A decision to choose <a href="/facts/Hurum/LDKJESnH">Hurum</a> as the site of the new Oslo Airport was the reason for Borgen's withdrawal as Minister of Transport.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>Borgen lost his position as Minister of Local Government and Labour when Brundtland's Second Cabinet fell in 1989. When <a href="/facts/Brundtland%2527s_Third_Cabinet/ScWyXN4J">Brundtland's Third Cabinet</a> returned in 1990, Borgen returned as well, only under a slightly different name: Minister of Local Government.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> He made his exit in September 1992, and sat through his last term in Parliament, to 1993. While Borgen was Minister, his seat in Parliament was taken by Ingrid Nylund and <a href="/facts/Grethe_Fossum/r0gpbslf">Grethe Fossum</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p><p>Borgen finished his career with the position as <a href="/facts/List_of_County_Governors_of_Hedmark/RpXnC2Md">County Governor of Hedmark</a> from 1993.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> When Borgen died in August 1996, <a href="/facts/Ola_Skj%25C3%25B8laas/VMvng8yw">Ola Skjølaas</a> became Acting County Governor.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Kjell Borgen" (in Norwegian). Storting. <a href="https://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=KJBO&tab=Biography" target="_blank">https://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=KJBO&tab=Biography</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Kjell Borgen" (in Norwegian). Storting. <a href="https://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=KJBO&tab=Biography" target="_blank">https://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=KJBO&tab=Biography</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Kjell Borgen" (in Norwegian). Storting. <a href="https://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=KJBO&tab=Biography" target="_blank">https://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=KJBO&tab=Biography</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Malmø, Morten (6 December 1990). "Inside NSB". Dagens Næringsliv (in Norwegian). <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Unsigned editorial (4 November 1987). "Skal, skal ikke?". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 2. <a href="/wiki/Editorial" target="_blank">/wiki/Editorial</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Andreassen, Thorleif; et al. (14 June 1988). "Bare godord da nøklene fikk nye eiere". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 7. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development - Councillor of State". Government.no. Retrieved 23 November 2009. <a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/en/the-government/previous-governments/the-structure-of-the-registry/ministries-and-offices/government-secretariats-and-ministries-s/ministries-since-1814/ministry-of-local-government-and-regiona.html?id=426278" target="_blank">http://www.regjeringen.no/en/the-government/previous-governments/the-structure-of-the-registry/ministries-and-offices/government-secretariats-and-ministries-s/ministries-since-1814/ministry-of-local-government-and-regiona.html?id=426278</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Kjell Borgen" (in Norwegian). Storting. <a href="https://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=KJBO&tab=Biography" target="_blank">https://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=KJBO&tab=Biography</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"Kjell Borgen" (in Norwegian). Storting. <a href="https://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=KJBO&tab=Biography" target="_blank">https://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=KJBO&tab=Biography</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"Konkurranse om fylkesmannsstillingen i Hedmark" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 20 November 1996. <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>