Gunnar Kvassheim

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Gunnar Kvassheim (born 14 June 1953 in Eigersund) is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Rogaland in 1997, but not re-elected in 2001. During the second cabinet Bondevik, Kongshaug was appointed State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister. He was re-elected to a second parliamentary term in 2005.

On the local level he was a member of Eigersund municipal council from 1975 to 1983. He chairs the local party chapter since 2004, and was the deputy leader of the nationwide party from 1996 to 2001. Since 2001 he is a member of the Liberal Party central board.

Outside of politics, he has spent his career in newspapers. He was a journalist from 1976 to 1986 and editor-in-chief of Dalane Tidende from 1986 to 1997.

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