Signe Swensson Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=12883 Signe Swensson