Vocation : Politics : Public office

Art Hamilton (born January 19, 1948) is an American politician who served in the Arizona House of Representatives from the 22nd district from 1973 to 1999.

Syver Berge (born 30 July 1939, in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oppland in 1989, and was re-elected on one occasion. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1981–1985.
Berge held various positions in Vågå municipality council from 1967 to 1979 and 1999 to 2003. From 1979 to 1987 he was a member of Oppland county council.

Ingvald Godal (26 October 1934 – 28 January 2019) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party and later the Conservative Party. For the former party he was a State Secretary as well as mayor of Vinje; for the latter party he served four terms in the Norwegian Parliament. He was also involved in various organizations, most latterly the Norwegian Support Committee for Chechnya.

Ingrid I. Willoch (8 October 1943 – 23 November 2017) was a Norwegian politician.
She was born in Oslo to Finn Isaachsen Willoch and Kaja Beck. She was elected representative to the Storting for the period 1981–1985 for the Conservative Party. She was reelected for the period 1985–1989. She died on 23 November 2017 at the age of 74.

Christopher Hallowell Phillips (December 6, 1920 – January 10, 2008) was an American diplomat and politician who served as United States Ambassador to Brunei and was a member of the Massachusetts Senate.

Tove Billington Bye (née Jørgensen) (28 July 1928 – 15 May 2008) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus during the terms 1973–1977 and 1977–1981.On the local level, she was a member of the executive committee of Asker municipal council, having been elected in the so-called "women's coup" where four women (Tove Billington Bye, Berit Ås, Marie Borge Refsum and Kari Bjerke Anderssen) led a successful campaign to get women elected to the municipal council.She was married to legendary Norwegian TV and radio personality Erik Bye from 1953 to his death in 2004, and lived at Hvalstad.

Harald Ellefsen (born 11 December 1950) is a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Conservative Party.

Grethe G. Fossum (1 November 1945 – 28 November 2019) was a Norwegian politician. She served one term in the Storting from Hedmark from 1997 to 2001. She was also a deputy representative from 1989 to 1997 and 2001 to 2005. Fossum was a member of the Labour Party.She was born in Oslo to Kåre Gulbrandsen and Iris Pettersen. She served as a teacher and school administrator in Grue, Norway before becoming active in Labor Party politics. She was a member of the council and deputy mayor of the town from 1987 to 1991.She was first elected as a deputy representative in 1989 and re-elected in 1993. In her time as a deputy, she substitute for Kjell Borgen and Sigbjørn Johnsen during their terms and cabinet ministers. In the 1997 Norwegian parliamentary election, she was elected to a seat in her own right. She served on the Family, Culture and Administration committee and the Finance Committee.In the 2001 election, Labour saw its share of seats drop from the prior election and Fossum did not hold her seat, but was again elected as a deputy. She substituted for Sylvia Brustad during the latter's term as a minister.Fossum died on 28 November 2019 at the age of 74.

Arne Fliflet (born 21 May 1946) is a Norwegian jurist and civil servant.
He graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1971. After some years as a university lector at the University of Oslo, he worked as a deputy judge in Sunnfjord from 1974 to 1975.
He was a junior solicitor from 1975, lawyer in the Office of the Attorney General of Norway from 1979 to 1986 and a private lawyer from 1987. He was appointed Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman for Public Administration in 1990, and served until 2014.