Background
He was born in Chicago, Illinois.
United States representative politician
He was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Dartmouth College.
A staunch anti-communist, he served ten years in the United States Congress. Hiestand was a 1910 graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The 21st district covered the northern 2/3 of Los Angeles County, including the cities of Pasadena and Sierra Madre on the east to Burbank and the San Fernando Valley on the west and the Antelope Valley (including Edwards Air Force Base) on the north.
In 1962, the Democratic California Legislature re-districted Hiestand into the western section of the old 21st district, which was more heavily Democratic.
Hiestand served on the United States. House Committee on Education and Labor where he sponsored and supported revisions to the business-labor statutes. Prior to being elected to Congress, Hiestand engaged in a career of retailing, concluding with Sears, Roebuck and Company in Glendale, California.
Hiestand died, age 81, in Pasadena, California. His ashes were interred at San Gabriel Cemetery in California.
A Republican and member of the John Birch Society, he represented California"s 21st congressional district from 1953 until 1963, when he was defeated by Everett G. Burkhalter, a Burbank incumbent city councilman.