Henry Karlsen
Henry Nikolai Karlsen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Finnmark during the terms 1950-1953, 1958-1961 and 1961-1965.
Born in Nord-Varanger, Karlsen was mayor of Nord-Varanger municipality from 1945 to 1963. When the municipality was incorporated into Vadsø, Karlsen was mayor of that municipality from 1963 to 1972. A member of the county committee in Finnmark from 1951, he became the first county mayor in 1963, and served until his death in 1975.
Outside politics he worked as a local bureaucrat from 1953 to 1968, and as a fisher and farmer.
