Joshua Hill (politician)

Joshua Hill

Joshua Hill (born January 10, 1812 in Abbeville District , South Carolina , †  March 6, 1891 in Madison , Georgia ) was an American politician who represented the state of Georgia in both chambers of Congress .

Originally from South Carolina, Joshua Hill attended public schools in his home country, but also received private tuition. He studied law , was inducted into the bar, and began practicing law in Monticello after moving to Georgia .

As a candidate for the American Party , Hill was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1856 , to which he served as a representative of the Seventh Constituency of Georgia from March 4, 1857 to January 23, 1861. While the rest of his state's congressmen simply resigned their mandates after Georgia decided to secede , Hill officially resigned as MP. Hill was one of the southerners who were loyal to the Union (so-called Southern Unionists ). He became friends with General William Tecumseh Sherman and so this Hills spared Madison's hometown during his march to sea in 1864 through Georgia, during which he purposefully devastated entire cities and regions.

After the end of the Civil War , Hill joined the Republican Party and was elected to the United States Senate in July 1868 . However, he had to wait for that mandate to be exercised until Georgia was allowed to exercise full political rights again. So he could only take his oath of office on February 1, 1871; the legislative period then lasted until March 3, 1873. He did not apply for re-election.

Hill returned to Georgia and worked as a lawyer in Madison. In 1877 he took part in the Georgia Constitutional Convention; otherwise he held no public offices until his death in March 1891.

Web links

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

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