John Hill (politician, 1821)

John Hill

John Hill (born June 10, 1821 in Catskill , Greene County , New York , †  July 24, 1884 in Boonton , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1867 and 1873 and again from 1881 to 1883 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Hill attended private schools. He then worked as a bank clerk and accountant in his hometown of Catskill. In 1845 he moved to Boonton, New Jersey. There he worked again as an accountant and paymaster and later also in trade. Between November 1849 and May 1853 Hill was a postman in Boonton. Politically, he joined the Republican Party founded in 1854 . Between 1852 and 1856 and again from 1863 to 1867 he sat on the Boonton City Council. From 1856 to 1861 he was also a justice of the peace. In 1861, 1862 and 1866 John Hill was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly , of which he was President in 1866, succeeding Joseph T. Crowell . In 1862 he ran unsuccessfully for the New Jersey Senate . Hill was a staunch supporter of the Union. At the beginning of the civil war he was involved in the establishment of military units for the army of the Union .

In the congressional election of 1866 Hill was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded Andrew J. Rogers on March 4, 1867 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1873 . As early as 1865, the work of Congress had been shaped by the conflict between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson , which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment process . From 1871 to 1873, Hill was chairman of the Home Office's Expenditure Control Committee . During his tenure as Congressman, the 14th and 15th amendments were ratified.

After the end of his first term in the US House of Representatives, Hill was again active in commerce until 1876. He then retired from active working life, but remained active as a politician. As early as 1868 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where General Ulysses S. Grant was nominated as a presidential candidate. Hill was a member of the New Jersey Senate from 1875 to 1877. In the congressional elections of 1880 he was re-elected to Congress in the fifth district of his state, where he succeeded Charles H. Voorhis on March 4, 1881 . Since he refused to run again in 1882, he could only spend one more legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1883.

John Hill died on July 24, 1884 in Boonton, where he was also buried.

Web links

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

• John Hill in the database of Find a Grave (English)