Christian Møinichen Havig

Christian Møinichen Havig (April 4, 1825 – April 10, 1912) was a Norwegian bailiff (lensmann) and Storting representative for Nordland from 1871 to 1888.

Family Havig was born at the Havika farm in Overhalla in the Namdalen district (now in Namsos Municipality). When he was still a child, his family moved to Vikna Municipality. In 1854 he married Dorthea Karstine Nergaard (1831–1915), from Seierstad on the island of Jøa. He was the father of the Liberal Party Storting representative Christian Fredrik Nergaard Havig (1855–1927) and the bailiff in Vefsn Municipality Thorleiv Nergaard Havig (1867–1938).

Life Apart from the instruction in the ambulatory school (omgangsskole) taught by a traveling schoolmaster, Havig received little formal education. Nonetheless, he managed to learn enough on his own that he was accepted for office work for the bailiff in Nærøy Municipality and Vikna Municipality. Later he was employed by his cousin, the bailiff Jørgen Johannes Havig in Namsos, who was a member of the Storting. Here he served for a period as the town's mayor and settlement commissioner (forlikskommissær). In 1848, he was appointed as an assistant to the district judge in Namdalen, where he remained until 1858, when he was appointed bailiff in Vefsn in Nordland.