Mark Langdon Hill

Mark Langdon Hill (born June 30, 1772 in Biddeford , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  November 26, 1842 in Phippsburg , Maine ) was an American politician . Between 1819 and 1821 he represented the state of Massachusetts and from 1821 to 1823 the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Mark Hill was born in 1772 in Biddeford, which was then part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay . After Maine was founded in 1820, the city fell to that state. Hill attended the public schools in his home country and then became a merchant and then a shipbuilder in Phippsburg. From 1796 until his death he was on the board and curator of Bowdoin College in Brunswick . Politically, Hill was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . Between 1797 and 1814 he sat several times as a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts . In 1804 and again from 1815 to 1817 he was a member of the State Senate .

In 1818 Hill was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 16th  constituency of Massachusetts . There he succeeded Benjamin Orr on March 4, 1819 . During this time Henry Clay worked out the Missouri Compromise . Hill and John Holmes were the only District of Maine MPs to approve this compromise. The result was, on the one hand, the maintenance of slavery in Missouri and the establishment of the slave-free state of Maine, which was split off from Massachusetts. Mark Hill was reelected in the 1820 congressional election. Since his district now belonged to the state of Maine, he represented the third electoral district between March 4, 1821 and March 3, 1823.

Between 1819 and 1824, also during his time in Congress , Hill was the postman of Phippsburg. In 1824 he worked for the Customs Service in Bath . Mark Hill died in Phippsburg on November 26, 1842.

Web links

• Mark Langdon Hill in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Mark Langdon Hill in the database of Find a Grave (English)