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 Gildeskål is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Bodø Region and the traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Inndyr. Other villages include Forstranda, Lekange ...

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 ( se, Áhkanjárga) is the third-largest municipality in Nordland county, Norway, by population. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Narvik. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Ankenesstranda, Ball ...

from 1910 to 1914. He married in 1916. In 1915 he was hired as manager of the newspaper ''

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'', soon advancing to editor-in-chief. In 1917 he was hired in the

Halden Halden (), between 1665 and 1928 known as Fredrikshald, is both a town and a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The municipality borders Sarpsborg to the northwest, Rakkestad to the north and Aremark to the east, as well as the Swedish muni ...

office of '' Smaalenenes Socialdemokrat''. He moved on to ''

Østfold Arbeiderblad ''Østfold Arbeiderblad'' was a newspaper published in Sarpsborg in Østfold county, Norway. It was started in 1921 as the regional newspaper for the Norwegian Labour Party. In the same year the Labour Party had lost its newspaper in the region, '' ...

'' 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

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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 ''Bergensavisen'' (lit. "the Bergen newspaper"), usually shortened to ''BA'', is the second largest newspaper in Bergen, Norway. The paper is published in tabloid format. The newspaper's webpage ba.no is Bergen's largest local newspaper webpage ...

''; 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

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city council from 1938 to 1949 and

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city council from 1952 to 1967. He chaired

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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.Death announcement, ''

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'' 1 June 1978 p. 15 His daughter married Erik Ribu.

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