Søren Tobias Årstad

Søren Tobias Årstad (2 June 1861 – 11 January 1928) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Liberal Party.

Søren Tobias Årstad
President of the Storting
In office 1 January 1913 – 31 December 1915 Serving with Jørgen Løvland and Gunnar Knudsen
Prime Minister	Jens Bratlie Gunnar Knudsen
Preceded by	Magnus Halvorsen Wollert Konow Jens Bratlie
Succeeded by	Ivar P. Tveiten Martin Olsen Nalum J. L. Mowinckel
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)
Nationality	Norwegian
Political party	Liberal
Occupation	Jurist Politician

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 finished his secondary education in 1879 and graduated with the 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 Parliament of Norway from Stavanger og Haugesund in 1897, serving until 1900. He then served as Minister of Finance from 1900 to 1901, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm until 1902, then Minister of Justice and the Police until October 1903.[1][4]

In 1903 he was appointed as the district stipendiary magistrate in Ryfylke District Court. He was elected to Parliament for a second term in 1912, serving until 1915.[1] During this period he also served as vice president and 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

1. "Søren Tobias Årstad" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 20 March 2011.
2. "Wilhelm Aarstad" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 23 December 2013.
3. Amundsen, O. Delphin (1947). Den kongelige norske Sankt Olavs Orden (in Norwegian). Oslo: Grøndahl. p. 65–66.
4. Henriksen, Petter (ed.). "Søren Tobias Årstad". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
5. "Søren Årstads vei". Stavanger byleksikon (in Norwegian). Stavanger: Wigestrand. 2008. p. 529. ISBN 978-82-8140-017-7.