{{Short description|Norwegian judge and politician}} '''Johan Blackstad''' (16 November 1832 – 8 November 1904) was a Norwegian judge and politician for the Conservative Party.
He was born in Bergen and took the cand.jur. degree in 1857. He was hired in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1860, and in 1870 he went on to become district stipendiary magistrate in Varanger. From 1874 to 1882 he served as County Governor of ''Finnmarkens Amt''.<ref name=salmo1>{{cite encyclopedia |year=1915 |title=Blackstad, Johan (page 1)|encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversations Leksikon |publisher=J. H. Schultz |location=Copenhagen |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/3/0407.html |language=Danish|access-date=9 September 2009}}</ref> While stationed here he was elected twice to the Norwegian Parliament from the constituency ''Hammerfest, Vardø og Vadsø''. He left Parliament in 1885<ref name=nsd>{{cite web|url=http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=polsys&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=10335|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516070912/http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=polsys&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=10335|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 16, 2012|title=Johan Blackstad|publisher=Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)|language=Norwegian|accessdate=9 September 2009}}</ref> during a very critical time for the Conservative Party.<ref name=salmo1/>
In 1882 he became district stipendiary magistrate in ''Eker, Modum og Sigdal'', and in 1889 he became presiding judge in Eidsivating Court of Appeal.<ref name=salmo2>{{cite encyclopedia |year=1915 |title=Blackstad, Johan (page 2)|encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversations Leksikon |publisher=J. H. Schultz |location=Copenhagen |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/3/0408.html |language=Danish|access-date=9 September 2009}}</ref> In 1891 he was named acting Director of Public Prosecutions. He got the position on a permanent basis in 1901.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2007|title=riksadvokat|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|editor=Henriksen, Petter|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/riksadvokat|language=Norwegian|accessdate=9 September 2009}}</ref> He held this post until he died in November 1904, on the way to his office.<ref>{{cite news|title=11 riksadvokater på 100 år|last=Letvik|first=Håkon|date=3 August 1997|work=Aftenposten|page=6|language=Norwegian}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-gov}} {{s-bef| before = Jens Holmboe}} {{s-ttl| title = County Governor of Finnmarkens amt|years=1874–1882}} {{s-aft| after = Carl Ingwart Theodor Rynning}} {{s-legal}} {{s-bef| before = Bernhard Getz}} {{s-ttl| title = Norwegian Director of Public Prosecutions|years=1891–1904<br /><small>''(acting 1891-1901)''</small>}} {{s-aft| after = Harald Smedal}} {{s-end}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Blackstad, Johan}} Category:1832 births Category:1904 deaths Category:Civil servants from Bergen Category:Norwegian judges Category:County governors of Norway Category:Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Category:Politicians from Finnmark Category:Lawyers from Bergen Category:Members of the Storting 1883–1885 Category:Members of the Storting 1880–1882