John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill

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John Hill (1905)

John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill (born May 2, 1879 in Annapolis , Maryland , †  May 23, 1941 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1921 and 1927 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Hill attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at Johns Hopkins University until 1900 . After a subsequent law degree at Harvard University and his admission to the bar in 1903, he began to work in this profession in Boston . In 1904 he moved his residence and his law firm to Baltimore . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1908 he ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives; 1915 failed an application for the office of mayor of Baltimore. From 1910 to 1915 Hill served as the successor to John Carter Rose as a state attorney for the District of Maryland. In June 1916 he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago . During a border conflict with Mexico in 1916, he worked there as a military lawyer. During the First World War in 1918 and 1919 he was first a major and later a lieutenant colonel in the US Army .

In the congressional elections of 1920 Hill was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the third constituency of Maryland, where he succeeded Charles Pearce Coady on March 4, 1921 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1927 . In 1926 he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate . In 1928 and 1936, other congressional candidates failed. Otherwise, Hill practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1937 and 1940 he practiced this profession in New York City , after which he returned to Maryland. He died in Washington on May 23, 1941 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery , Virginia .

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SURNAME Hill, John Boynton Philip Clayton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Annapolis , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1941
Place of death Washington, DC