Søren Tobias Årstad
Søren Tobias Årstad | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Justice | |
| In office 21 April 1902 – 22 October 1903 | |
| Prime Minister | Otto Blehr |
| Preceded by | Ole Anton Qvam |
| Succeeded by | Francis Hagerup |
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 6 November 1900 – 8 June 1901 | |
| Prime Minister | Johannes Steen |
| Preceded by | Georg A. Thilesen |
| Succeeded by | Elias Sunde |
| Member of the Norwegian Parliament | |
| In office 1 January 1898 – 31 December 1900 | |
| Constituency | Stavanger og Haugesund |
| Mayor of Stavanger | |
| In office 1 January 1891 – 31 December 1892 | |
| Preceded by | Johannes Steen |
| Succeeded by | Andreas Meling |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 June 1861 Stavanger, Rogaland, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway |
| Died | 11 January 1928 (aged 66) |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Occupation | Jurist Politician |
Søren Tobias Årstad (2 June 1861 – 11 January 1928) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Liberal Party.
He was mayor of
Minister of Justice and the Police in Otto Blehr
's first cabinet. A member of the Storting from 1912 tp 1915, he served as vice president and president of the Storting.
Personal life
Årstad was born in Stavanger as a son of merchant Edvard Årstad and his wife Signe Amalie Torjusen.[1] He was a first cousin of Wilhelm Aarstad.[2] He married Barbro Cecilie Rasmussen in 1890.[3]
Career
Årstad
cand.jur. degree in 1885. After some time as junior solicitor in Risør he settled as an attorney in Stavanger in 1885. He was elected to the city council, and served as Mayor of Stavanger from 1891 to 1892.[1]
He was elected to the
In 1903 he was appointed as the district stipendiary magistrate in
president of the Parliament. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1901, and Commander, First Class in 1903.[3] He died in January 1928.[1]
The street Søren Årstads vei in the borough of Hillevåg, Stavanger, was named after him in 1954.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Søren Tobias Årstad" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ "Wilhelm Aarstad" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ^ a b Amundsen, O. Delphin (1947). Den kongelige norske Sankt Olavs Orden (in Norwegian). Oslo: Grøndahl. pp. 65–66.
- Store norske leksikon(in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ISBN 978-82-8140-017-7.