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'''Edmund Hillestad''' (January 6, 1861 – September 28, 1946) was an American businessman and member of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
==Biography== Hillestad was born in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. He was the son of Amund Hillestad and Anna Andersdatter Hillestad. His family moved to South Dakota in 1879.<ref name="Obit">{{cite news |title=Services Conducted for Edmund Hillestad |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57052587/edmund-hillestad-1861-1946/ |work=Argus-Leader |date=October 8, 1946 |location=Sioux Falls, SD |page=7 |accessdate=August 10, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Obit"/> He died in Volga, South Dakota and was buried at the First Lutheran Cemetery in Brookings County, South Dakota.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=61436 |title= Farmers Mutual Insurance |publisher= Volga (S. D.) Tribune |date= August 22, 1929 |accessdate= April 25, 2016}}</ref>
==Career== Hillestad was a member of the House of Representatives twice:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hilla-hillhouse.html#169.40.89|title=Hillestad, Edmund|publisher=Political Graveyard|accessdate=2013-11-19}}</ref> first from 1903 to 1906, and again from 1929 to 1932.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://legis.state.sd.us/historical/LegislatorDetail.aspx?MemberID=2820 |title=South Dakota Legislature-Historical Listing-Legislator Information-Edmund Hillestad |access-date=2013-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703131225/http://legis.state.sd.us/historical/LegislatorDetail.aspx?MemberID=2820 |archive-date=2013-07-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In addition, he was commissioner of Brookings County, South Dakota. He was a Republican.
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==External links== *{{Find a Grave|106436356}}
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