Signe Swensson | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office1: | Member of the Norwegian Parliament |
Constituency1: | Trondheim and Levanger |
Term Start1: | 1931 |
Term End1: | 1936 |
Office2: | 17th President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights |
Term Start2: | 1956 |
Term End2: | 1956 |
Predecessor2: | Marit Aarum |
Successor2: | Eva Kolstad |
Birth Date: | 1888 11, df=yes |
Nationality: | Norwegian |
Party: | Conservative Party |
Occupation: | Physician, politician |
Signe Swensson (23 November 1888 in Trondhjem – 22 April 1974) was a Norwegian physician and politician for the Conservative Party of Norway. She served as a Member of Parliament from 1931 to 1936[1] and as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1956.
Originally trained as a teacher at Oslo Teacher's College in 1912, she got her cand.med. degree in 1922, and worked as a district physician in Frøya, Sør-Trøndelag before settling in Trondhjem as a specialist in skin diseases in 1927.
She was president of the Norwegian Association of Female Professionals 1936–46, member of the city council of Trondheim 1937-47 and president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.
Her father was Swedish-born businessman Pehr Gustaf Swensson and her brother was physician Nils Victor Swensson.