Per Borten

Per Borten
Prime Minister Borten in 1964.
14th Prime Minister of Norway
In office 12 October 1965 – 16 March 1971
Monarch	Olav V
Preceded by	Einar Gerhardsen
Succeeded by	Trygve Bratteli
Personal details
Born	(1913-04-03)3 April 1913 Flå, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
Died	20 January 2005(2005-01-20) (aged 91) Trondheim, Norway
Political party	Centre Party
Religion	Lutheran/Church of Norway
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 Per Borten  (3 April 1913 – 20 January 2005) was a Norwegian politician from the Centre Party and Prime Minister of Norway from 1965 to 1971. Per Borten is credited for leading the modernization of what was then named Bondepartiet (the Agrarian Party) into today's Centre Party. He was an active opponent of Norway joining the European Union.

Borten was born in Flå in the municipality of Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag, and was educated Agriculturist from the Norwegian College of Agriculture in 1939. He started his political career serving as mayor of his home municipally, Flå, from 1945 to 1955. He was elected to the Norwegian parliament in 1949 and stayed there until his retirement in 1977. Borten was President of the Odelsting 1961–1965 and 1973–1977.

He was appointed president of the Odelsting, acted as the parliamentary leader for his party and served as its chairman from 1955 to 1967. As Prime Minister of Norway from 1965, he headed a four-party centre-right coalition government, until 17 March 1971, when the government dissolved itself. He resigned as Prime Minister when it became known that he had shown confidential information about Norway in the negotiations concerning European Economic Community membership, with amongst others, Arne Haugestad, then leader of the People's Movement against Norwegian membership of the EEC.