Bertha Wellin

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Bertha Wellin

Bertha Wellin (11 September 1870 – 27 July 1951), was a Swedish Politician (Conservative) and nurse. She belonged to the first women to have been elected into the Swedish parliament.

Wellin was a nurse: in 1910 she became a member of the board of directors - from 1914 chairman - of Svensk sjuksköterskeförening (Swedish Nurses Association), a member of the board of directors in the Committee of Nordic Nurses Cooperation (1920) and was an editor of "Svensk sjukskötersketidning" (The Paper of the Swedish Nurse) from 1911. She was also on the board of several of the medical centers in Stockholm, such as Sophiahemmet (1917).

In 1912, she was elected to Stockholm City Council as a Conservative, and in 1919, she became a member of the Public Health Care. In 1921, she became one of the first five women to be elected to the Swedish Parliament after women suffrage alongside Nelly Thüring (Social Democrat), Agda Östlund (Social Democrat) and Elisabeth Tamm (liberal) in the Lower chamber, and Kerstin Hesselgren in the Upper chamber.

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Name	Wellin, Bertha
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Short description	Swedish politician
Date of birth	11 September 1870
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Date of death	27 July 1951
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