Eivind Eckbo

Eivind Eckbo
Leader 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
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. She had two children from before they got married, he had 7.[3]

References

  1. "Norges Offisielle Statistikk. Stortingsvalget 1973. Hefte I." (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway.
  2. Vikre, Thorleif (12 March 2009). "Nå er vi nest største parti i landet!". Telemark FrP.
  3. Lorentzen, Trude (10 August 2005). "Ekstrem opprydning". Dagbladet.