Benjamin Harvey Hill

Benjamin Harvey Hill

Benjamin Harvey Hill (born September 14, 1823 in Hillsborough , Jasper County , Georgia , † August 16, 1882 in Atlanta , Georgia) was an American politician, Congressman , and US Senator from Georgia. He was also a member of the Democratic Party .

Career

Benjamin Harvey Hill, a cousin of Hugh Lawson White Hill , was born on September 14, 1823 in Hillsborough, Jasper County, Georgia. He studied law at the University of Georgia at Athens , graduated in 1844 and was admitted to the bar that same year. He then began practicing in LaGrange , Troup County , Georgia.

Hill decided to pursue a political career in 1851 by being elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. He then served in Georgia's Senate between 1859 and 1860 . He was opposed to disunion until the time Georgia passed the secession order. He was then a deputy in the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861 and later from 1861 to 1865 Senator of the Confederate States . It was the end of the Civil War arrested and (eventually paroled English. Paroled ).

After the war he resumed his practice as a lawyer. He was later elected a Democrat to the forty-fourth Congress of the United States to fill the vacancy created by the death of MP Garnett McMillan . Hill was re-elected to the subsequent US Congress and served there from May 5, 1875 until his resignation on March 3, 1877. The background to his resignation was that he was elected as a Democrat to the US Senate, where he served from March 4, 1877 until his death on August 16, 1882 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was buried in Oakland Cemetery. During his time as a US Senator, he was Chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (46th Congress).

According to him, Ben Hill County named in Georgia.

Biographies

American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Hill, Benjamin Harvey, Jr. Senator Benjamin Hill of Georgia, His Life, Speeches and Writings. Atlanta: HC Hudgkins and Co., 1891; Pearce, Haywood. Benjamin H. Hill, Secession and Reconstruction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928.

Web links

• Benjamin Harvey Hill in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)