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Johan Pehrson
1968May, 8

Johan Pehrson

Johan Pehrson, Swedish lawyer and politician
Carl Johan Georg Pehrson (born 8 May 1968) is a Swedish politician with the Liberal People's Party. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1998, representing Örebro County, and is the current Chairman of the parliament's Committee on Justice (since 2002). He is also the Liberal People's Party's spokesperson on justice policy and Chairman of the Alliance for Sweden working group on justice policy.

Pehrson was born in Längbro in Örebro County. He has a Bachelor of Laws degree from Uppsala University. He became a member of the Liberal People's Party in 1985 with a previous background from the Liberal Youth of Sweden. Before being elected to the parliament in 1998, Pehrson worked as a court clerk at the Örebro district court. From 2001 to 2002 Pehrson was Party Secretary of the Liberal People's Party.

Pehrson lives in Örebro with his wife and four children.

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    Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
  • 31Jan

    Tet Offensive

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  • 29Apr

    Counterculture of the 1960s

    The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
  • 14Oct

    U.S. Marine Corps

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    Jacqueline Kennedy

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