Edmund Hitt (February 9, 1901 – July 17, 1976) was a member of the
Wisconsin State Assembly
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Biography
Hitt was born in the town of
Alma
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,
Buffalo County, Wisconsin
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History
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, and was the younger brother of the politician
Arthur A. Hitt. He attended the
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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. Hitt was a farmer and farm labor investigator. He was also involved with the Tenney Telephone Company. He died on July 17, 1976, in
Wabasha, Minnesota
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Career
Hitt was chairman of the
Town of Alma from 1936 to 1943 and mayor of the city of
Alma
Alma or ALMA may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Alma'' (film), a 2009 Spanish short animated film
* ''Alma'' (Oswald de Andrade novel), 1922
* ''Alma'' (Le Clézio novel), 2017
* ''Alma'' (play), a 1996 drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma ...
from 1946 to 1948. In 1942, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Assembly as a member of the
Wisconsin Progressive Party
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The Party was the brainchild of Philip La Follette and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., the sons of the famous Wiscon ...
. He was elected to the Assembly in 1948 as a
Republican
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People from Alma, Wisconsin
Businesspeople from Wisconsin
Farmers from Wisconsin
Mayors of places in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Progressives (1924)
University of Wisconsin–La Crosse alumni
1901 births
1976 deaths
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American politicians
Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
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