Jørgen Hustad
Norwegian writer
Jørgen Ludolf Pedersen Hustad (29 January 1896 – 31 May 1978) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.
He was born in Gildeskål Municipality as a son of laborer Petter Hustad (1856–1947) and Helene Sofie Jensen (1859–1933). He attended business school, and worked as a laborer in Narvik from 1910 to 1914. He married in 1916.
In 1915, he was hired as manager of the newspaper Nordlys, soon advancing to editor-in-chief. In 1917 he was hired in the Halden office of Smaalenenes Socialdemokrat. He moved on to Østfold Arbeiderblad and was the editor-in-chief of that newspaper from 1922 to 1927. As editor he was sentenced to 90 days of light detention for encouraging the 1924 military strike. He was a member of the municipal council of Halden Municipality from 1923 to 1928, and deputy mayor in 1928.
After running a business in Kristiansand from 1929 to 1934, and then returned to Smaalenenes Socialdemokrat as editor-in-chief from 1935 to 1942.
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