Ebenezer J. Hill

Ebenezer J. Hill

Ebenezer J. Hill (born August 4, 1845 in Redding , Connecticut , †  September 27, 1917 in Norwalk , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1913 and from 1915 to 1917 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ebenezer Hill attended the public schools of his home country and then from 1865 to 1866 Yale College . Between 1863 and 1865 he interrupted his schooling in order during the Civil War in the Army of the Union to serve. He later worked in Norwalk as a businessman and banker. Politically, Hill became a member of the Republican Party . In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago . He was a member of the Connecticut Senate in 1886 and 1887 . He was also a state-level board member of his party for one term.

In the 1894 congressional election, Hill was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Connecticut . There he stepped on March 4, 1895 to succeed the Democrat Robert E. De Forest . After eight re-elections, he was able to complete nine consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1913 . During this time the Spanish-American War fell , as a result of which the Philippines came under American sovereignty.

Between 1909 and 1911, Hill chaired the Treasury Department's Expenditure Control Committee. In the elections of 1912 he was defeated by the Democrat Jeremiah Donovan , but he was able to beat him in the subsequent elections in 1914. After re-election in 1916, Ebenezer Hill could spend the time between March 4, 1915 and his death on September 27, 1917 as a congressman. During this time, the American entry into the First World War fell . After the by-election became necessary, Hill's mandate fell to his party colleague Schuyler Merritt .

Web links

• Ebenezer J. Hill in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ebenezer J. Hill in the database of Find a Grave (English)