A. Walter Norblad

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = A. Walter Norblad.jpg

| caption = Norblad as Congressman

| birth_name = Albin Walter Norblad Jr.

| birth_date = {{birth date|1908|9|12}}

| birth_place = Escanaba, Michigan, United States

| residence = Stayton, Oregon
Astoria, Oregon

| death_date = {{death date and age|1964|9|20|1908|9|12}}

| death_place = Bethesda, Maryland

| term_start = January 18, 1946

| term_end = September 20, 1964

| predecessor = James W. Mott

| successor = Wendell Wyatt

| predecessor2 = Edwin C. Judd (R)

| successor2 = Clarence Ash (R)

| party = Republican

| occupation = Attorney

| spouse =

| children = Albin W. Norblad

| footnotes =

| district1 = 1st, Astoria

| state_house1 = Oregon

| state = Oregon

| district = 1st

| resting_place = Lone Oak Cemetery in Stayton, Oregon

| termstart1 = 1935

| termend1 = 1937

}}

Albin Walter Norblad Jr. (September 12, 1908 – September 20, 1964),{{cite web|title=Congressional Biographical Directory, 88th Congress (H.Doc 108-122) |work=Congressional Record |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |year=1965 |url=http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/hd108-222/88th.pdf |pages=429 |accessdate=2006-12-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917185357/http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/hd108-222/88th.pdf |archivedate=2008-09-17 }} was an American attorney and Republican politician in Oregon. He represented the U.S. state of Oregon's First District from January 18, 1946, until his death from a heart attack in Bethesda, Maryland, on September 20, 1964, in the United States House of Representatives.{{cite web | title = Norblad, Albin Walter Jr., (1908–1964) | work = Biographical Directory of Congress (1774–present) | publisher = United States Congress (Official website) | year = 2006 | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000133 | accessdate = 2006-12-13}} He was the son of Edna Lyle and A. W. Norblad, Sr., a one-time Governor of Oregon.{{cite news|title=Rep. Norblad, 56, Is Dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2383466/a_walter_norblad_19081964/|newspaper=The Escanaba Daily Press|date=September 21, 1964|page=10|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = May 10, 2015 }}

Early years

Albin Walter Norblad Jr. was born in Escanaba, Michigan, but, before he was a year old, his family relocated to Astoria, Oregon, where he attended public schools, before completing his secondary studies at the New Mexico Military Academy at Roswell, New Mexico. A graduate of the University of Oregon, Norblad undertook graduate study at Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1932, returning to his hometown of Astoria to practice at his father's firm of Norblad & Norblad.{{cite book |last=Smith |first=William Carlson |chapter=The Swedes of Oregon |title=American Swedish Historical Museum Year Book 1946 |via=Bertin Sundvall's Homepage |year=2006 |chapter-url=http://www.hevanet.com/sundvall/sweoreg.html |access-date=2006-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061210210907/http://www.hevanet.com/sundvall/sweoreg.html |archive-date=10 December 2006 |url-status=dead}}

Career

Norblad served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly as a representative for one term (1935–1937), was a member of the board of trustees of Linfield College, and a delegate to the 1940 Republican National Convention.

= World War II =

During World War II, he joined the U.S. Army Air Forces, serving as a combat intelligence officer from 1942 to 1945.

= Congress =

Upon return from the war, he settled in Stayton, Oregon, and was elected to fill the vacancy in the United States Congress caused by the death of James W. Mott. He was re-elected to nine successive terms in the House of Representatives.

Norblad voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/h42|title=HR 6127. Civil Rights Act of 1957.|work=GovTrack.us}} 1960,{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/86-1960/h102|title=HR 8601. PASSAGE.}} and 1964,{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h128|title=H.R. 7152. PASSAGE.}} as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/87-1962/h193|title=S.J. RES. 29. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO BAN THE USE OF POLL TAX AS A REQUIREMENT FOR VOTING IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.|work=GovTrack.us}}