Edmund Hillestad (January 6, 1861 – September 28, 1946) was an American businessman and member of the

South Dakota House of Representatives The South Dakota House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Dakota Legislature. It consists of 70 members, two from each legislative district. Two of the state's 35 legislative districts, Districts 26 and 28, are each subdivided int ...

Biography

Hillestad was born in

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin Mount Horeb is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin,. The population was 7,754 at the time of the 2020 census. It is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The Ho-Chunk nation The Village of Mount Horeb is part of the ancestral ...

. He was the son of Amund Hillestad and Anna Andersdatter Hillestad. His family moved to South Dakota in 1879. He was married to Bertha Thompson Hillestad (1861–1925), with whom he had eight children. Hillestad was president and secretary of the Farmers' Mutual Tornado Insurance and the Farmers' Mutual of Volga. He also served on the board of directors of the First National Bank of Volga. He died in

Volga, South Dakota Volga ( ) is a city in Brookings County, South Dakota, United States with a population of 2,113 at the 2020 census. History Volga was founded by the Western Town Lot Company on December 27, 1879, by Col. Arthur Jacoby, who had platted the area ...

and was buried at the First Lutheran Cemetery in

Brookings County, South Dakota Brookings County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 34,375, making it the fifth-most populous county in South Dakota. Its county seat is Brookings. The county was created in 18 ...

Career

Hillestad was a member of the House of Representatives twice: first from 1903 to 1906, and again from 1929 to 1932. In addition, he was commissioner of

. He was a

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hillestad, Edmund 1861 births 1946 deaths People from Mount Horeb, Wisconsin People from Brookings County, South Dakota Republican Party members of the South Dakota House of Representatives American Lutherans American people of Norwegian descent