Samuel B. Hill

Samuel B. Hill

Samuel Billingsley Hill (born April 2, 1875 in Franklin , Izard County , Arkansas , †  March 16, 1958 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1923 and 1936 he represented the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Hill attended the public schools in his home country and then attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville . After a subsequent law degree at this university and his admission as a lawyer in 1898, he began to work in Danville in his new profession. In 1904 he moved his residence and law firm to Waterville, Washington state. Between 1907 and 1911 he was a district attorney in Douglas County there. From 1917 to 1923 he was a judge in Douglas and Grant Counties .

Politically, Hill was a member of the Democratic Party . After the resignation of Congressman J. Stanley Webster , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when the by-election was due for his state's fifth mandate. There he took his seat on September 25, 1923. After five re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on May 21, 1936 . In this time fell global economic crisis in the early 1930s. Since 1933, many of the federal government's New Deal laws have been passed in Congress under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified. The beginning of the terms of office of the Congress and that of the President were brought forward from March to January and the 18th Amendment from 1919, in which the trade in alcoholic beverages was prohibited, was repealed.

Hills resignation came after he judge at the Federal Finance Court ( Tax Court had been appointed). He held this office between 1936 and his retirement on November 30, 1953. He died on March 16, 1958 in Bethesda and was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery , Washington DC.

Web links

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• Samuel B. Hill in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel B. Hill in the database of Find a Grave (English)