Marie Borge Refsum

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Name	Marie Borge Refsum
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Short description	Norwegian politician
Date of birth	March 20, 1927 (1927-03-20) (age 84)
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Marie Borge Refsum (born 20 March 1927) is a Norwegian politician, who served as a member of the Conservative Party.

She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus during the term 1973–1977.^[1]

On the local level, she was a member of the executive committee of Asker municipal council, having been elected in the so-called "women's coup" where four women (Tove Billington Bye, Berit Ås, Marie Borge Refsum and Kari Bjerke Andreassen) led a successful campaign to get women elected to the municipal council.^[2]

Refsum is the grandmother of researcher Alexander Refsum Jensenius.

References

1. ^ "Marie Borge Refsum" (in Norwegian). Stortinget.no. http://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=MARF&tab=Biography. 
2. ^ Johansen, Elin Reffhaug (20 May 2008). "Firerbanden er blitt tre" (in Norwegian). Budstikka.