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About Jørgen Hustad
- 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 as a son of laborer Petter Hustad (1856–1947) og Helene Sofie Jensen (1859–1933).
- He had commerce 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 Halden city council 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.
- After the Second World War the newspaper resurfaced again, with the name Demokraten and with Jørgen Hustad as editor in 1945.
- From 1950 he was the co-editor of Bergens Arbeiderblad; from 1958 the sole editor.
- He left the editor's chair in 1959, but continued as a journalist until his retirement.
- He was a member of Fredrikstad city council from 1938 to 1949 and Bergen city council from 1952 to 1967.
- He chaired Bergen Port Authority from 1965 to 1967.
- He continued campaigning politically after his 75th birthday, among others as an activist for the proposed Norwegian European Communities membership in 1972.He died in 1978.
- His daughter married Erik Ribu.
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