French Hill (politician)

French Hill (2015)

James French Hill (* 5. December 1956 in Little Rock , Arkansas ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . He has represented the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives since 2015 .

Career

French Hill graduated from Little Rock Catholic High School in 1975 . He then studied until 1976 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville . He then worked as a banker and businessman. He founded the Delta Trust and Banking Corporation in Little Rock, and was its chairman until 2014. Between 1982 and 1984 he was an administrative member of a Committee on Banking, House & Urban Affairs . From 1989 to 1991 he served as a Deputy Assistant in the US Treasury Department . He was then an adviser to the President and Executive Secretary of the Economic Policy Council until 1993 . In 2008 he was an advisor to Governor Mike Huckabee .

In the 2014 election , Hill was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second congressional constituency of Arkansas , where he succeeded Tim Griffin , who was no longer running and became the new lieutenant governor of Arkansas, on January 3, 2015 . He was confirmed in the 2016 election and is a member of the 115th Congress of the United States ; his mandate runs until January 3, 2019.

Web links

• French Hill in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Web presence at the Congress (English)