Eivind Eckbo

Eivind Eckbo
Chairman of Anders Lange's Party
In office
22 October 1974 – 1975
Preceded by Anders Lange
Succeeded by Arve Lønnum
Personal details
Born 10 August 1927 (1927-08-10) (age 84)
Nationality Norwegian
Political party Progress Party

Eivind Eckbo (born 10 August 1927) is a Norwegian politician, lawyer and farmer.

While working as a lawyer in Bø i Telemark, he stood as the second candidate of Anders Lange's Party on the Telemark ballot in the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1973.[1] He was the interim chairman of Anders Lange's Party from the death of party chairman and founder Anders Lange in 1974, until 1975.[2] He has later been deputy chairman and held other offices by the same party after it changed its name into the Progress Party.

He is married to Margaret Eckbo, also a politician for the Progress Party, of which she got introduced to through her husband. They both had two children from before they got married.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Norges Offisielle Statistikk. Stortingsvalget 1973. Hefte I." (in Norwegian) (PDF). Statistics Norway. http://www.ssb.no/histstat/nos/nos_a606.pdf. 
  2. ^ Vikre, Thorleif (12 March 2009). "Nå er vi nest største parti i landet!". Telemark FrP. http://www.frp.no/25+%C3%A5rs+festskrift.d25-TgJbYZY.ips. 
  3. ^ Lorentzen, Trude (10 August 2005). "Ekstrem opprydning". Dagbladet. http://www.dagbladet.no/magasinet/2005/08/10/439818.html.