Kjell Opseth

Kjell Opseth
Opseth in 2009.
Minister of Local Government
In office
25 October 1996 – 17 October 1997
Prime MinisterThorbjørn Jagland
Preceded byGunnar Berge
Succeeded byRagnhild Haarstad
Minister of Transport and Communications
In office
3 November 1990 – 25 October 1996
Prime MinisterGro Harlem Brundtland
Preceded byLars Gunnar Lie
Succeeded bySissel Rønbeck
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office
1 October 1981 – 30 September 2001
ConstituencySogn og Fjordane
Personal details
Born
Kjell Olav Opseth

(1936-01-02)2 January 1936
Førde, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
Died3 December 2017(2017-12-03) (aged 81)
Førde, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
Political partyLabour
SpouseHjørdis Årberg (m. 1963)[1]

Kjell Olav Opseth (2 January 1936 – 3 December 2017) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Transport and Communications 1990–1996 and Minister of Local Government Affairs 1996–1997.[2] As Transport Minister, he once observed of advertising hoardings featuring model Anna Nicole Smith that "on her own [she] is not a traffic hazard. It depends where she is."[3]

  1. ^ "Kjell Opseth" (in Norwegian). Store Norske Leksikon. 4 December 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Opseth, Kjell ( 1936- )" (in Norwegian). Stortinget.no. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
  3. ^ Daily Telegraph, 'Quotes of the Year', 29 December 1993