Knute Hill

Knute Hill

Knute Hill (born July 31, 1876 in Creston , Ogle County , Illinois , † December 3, 1963 in Desert Hot Springs , California ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1943 he represented the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Knute Hill came to DeForest , Wisconsin as a toddler in 1877 . In 1889 his family moved to Red Wing , Minnesota . There he attended public schools. Hill then studied at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his admission as a lawyer in 1906, he began to work in Milwaukee and Eau Claire in his new profession.

Hill moved to Prosser, Washington state in 1911 . There he taught in public schools and high schools in Benton County between 1911 and 1922 . Between 1922 and 1932 he lectured at the State Grange . At the same time he began to work in agriculture himself. As a member of the Democratic Party , he also began a political career.

Between 1927 and 1933 Hill was an MP in the Washington House of Representatives . In the congressional election of 1932 in the fourth constituency of his state in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Republican John W. Summers on March 4, 1933 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1943 . It was there that most of the Federal Government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Later, the events of World War II overshadowed the work of Congress. Right at the start of Hill's tenure in 1933, the 21st amendment repealed the 18th Amendment from 1919. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages.

In 1942 Knute Hill lost to Hal Holmes in the congressional election . Between 1943 and 1944 he ran an Indian agency in Utah . He then worked as a radio announcer in Spokane until 1946 . In 1946, Hill ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the short-lived Independent Progressive Party for return to the US House of Representatives. From 1949 to 1951 he worked for the Columbia Basin Project in Ephrata . He then retired, which he spent in Desert Hot Springs, California. He died there on December 3, 1963.

Web links

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

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