Edward William Christiansen Jr. (February 24, 1914 – March 28, 2000) was an American politician who served as a state representative and lieutenant governor in Montana.
[1] After graduating from North Dakota State University he married Hattie James on December 27, 1947, and moved to Hardin, Montana.
[2] In 1964, he was elected to the Montana House of Representatives after defeating Republican Sam Denny and also served as one of Montana's presidential delegates to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
[6] Christiansen won the lieutenant gubernatorial election, but announced in 1976 that he wouldn't seek reelection and rejected a draft movement that attempted to have him primary Governor Thomas Lee Judge.
[7][8] During the 1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries he endorsed Senator Ted Kennedy.