Kjell Bohlin

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Kjell Bohlin (born 27 September 1928 in Røros) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Telemark in 1945, and was re-elected on two occasions. He had previously served as a deputy representative from 1969–1973.

On the local level Bohlin was deputy mayor of Bamble municipality from 1963 to 1970, and then mayor from 1971 to 1981. He returned as a municipality council member from 2003 to 2007. From 1967 to 1981 he was also involved in county politics in Telemark, serving as deputy county mayor from 1975 to 1981. His political career ended with the position of County Governor of Telemark, which he held from 1989 to 1998, having been appointed in 1987.

Outside of politics, he was a journalist in Arbeidets Rett from 1948 to 1949 but spent the majority of his career as a social security bureaucrat.