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Gunnar Georg Emanuel Strang

Swedish politician
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Dec. 23, 1906, Jarfall, near Stockholm, Swed.
Died:
March 6, 1992, Stockholm (aged 85)

Gunnar Georg Emanuel Strang (born Dec. 23, 1906, Jarfall, near Stockholm, Swed.—died March 6, 1992, Stockholm) was a Swedish politician who was finance minister (1955–76) in a succession of Social Democratic cabinets and one of the architects of Sweden’s national social-welfare system. Strang was a self-educated agricultural labourer and trade-union organizer who rose to become president of the Swedish Agricultural Workers’ Union in 1938. After World War II he was elected to the Riksdag (parliament), joined the government as a consulting minister (1945–47), and later served as minister of supply (1947–48), agriculture (1948–51), and social affairs (1951–55). As minister of ...(100 of 181 words)

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