Bjarni Benediktsson
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Bjarni Benediktsson , 1908-70, Icelandic statesman. A lawyer, he was a vocal advocate of Iceland's independence from Denmark, and became a member of the central committee of the Independence party in 1936. Elected mayor of Reykjavík in 1940, he held a number of important government and diplomatic posts after World War II: He was minister of foreign affairs and justice (1947-53), minister of justice and education (1953-56), and minister of justice (1959). The head of the Independence party from 1961, he served as prime minister from 1963 until 1970, when he was killed in a fire.
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