Kjell Tellander was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party

Conservative Party of Norway

The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...

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He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the Market towns of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark

Market towns of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark

The Market towns of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark was an electoral district for parliamentary elections in Norway. It comprised the market towns of Bodø and Narvik in Nordland county, Tromsø in Troms county and Hammerfest, Vadsø and Vardø in Finnmark county....

 in 1945, but was not re-elected in 1949.

He was born in Oslo

Oslo

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, enrolled as a student in 1917 and graduated as cand.jur. in 1922.
He was acting stipendiary magistrate (byfogd) in Tromsø

Tromsø

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 from 1924 to 1926 and chief administrative officer (rådmann) of Bodø

Bodø

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from 1928 to 1967. He was never involved in local politics.