Jens Olai Steffensen (23 March 1891 – 17 October 1961) was a Norwegian politician for the
Labour Party.
He was elected to the
Norwegian Parliament from
Nordland
Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...
in 1934, and was re-elected on four occasions.
Steffensen was born in
Bø, Nordland and a member of
Bø municipality council from 1925 to 1928, and then served as deputy mayor during the terms 1934–1937 and 1937–1941 as well as mayor in 1945.
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1891 births
1961 deaths
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
20th-century Norwegian politicians
People from Bø, Nordland
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