Harriet Andreassen Explained

Office:Minister of Local Government
Term Start:3 October 1980
Term End:14 October 1981
Primeminister:Odvar Nordli
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Predecessor:Inger Louise Valle
Successor:Arne Rettedal
Birth Date:6 May 1925
Birth Place:Vikna, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
Death Place:Rælingen, Akershus, Norway
Party:Labour

Harriet Andreassen (6 May 1925 – 10 February 1997) was a Norwegian labour activist and politician for the Labour Party. Born in Vikna, she was secretary of the union Norsk Arbeidsmandsforbund (Union of Norwegian Working Men) from 1967 to 1977, and of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) from 1977 to 1985. On 3 October 1980, upon the resignation of Inger Louise Valle, she was appointed Minister of Local Government in the government of Odvar Nordli (1976–1981), and remained in this position throughout the short-lived first government of Gro Harlem Brundtland in 1981.

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