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Jens Martin Arctander Jenssen (28 July 1885 – 3 October 1968) was a Norwegian politician for the Communist Party. Jenssen was born in
Evenes Municipality or is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Ofoten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bogen, ...
. He was elected to the
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from the
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in 1945, but was not re-elected in 1949 as the Communist Party dropped from 11 to 0 seats in Parliament. Markussen was a member of the executive committee of the city council of Fredrikstad Municipality during the terms 1919–1922 and 1922–1925. Jenssen graduated as ''cand.philol.'' from
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1911. He worked as a teacher, and 1931–55 as headmaster of
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secondary school.


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* 1885 births 1968 deaths Communist Party of Norway politicians Norwegian communists People from Evenes Members of the Storting 1945–1949 {{Norway-politician-1880s-stub