[3] Albin Walter Norblad Jr. was born in Escanaba, Michigan,[3] 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.

[4] 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.

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

[3] 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.

[8] Norblad died of a heart attack in office in Bethesda, Maryland, on September 20, 1964,[3] and was buried in Lone Oak Cemetery in Stayton, Oregon.