William S. Hill

William S. Hill

William Silas Hill (born January 20, 1886 in Kelly , Nemaha County , Kansas , † August 28, 1972 in Fort Collins , Colorado ) was an American politician . Between 1941 and 1959 he represented the second constituency of the state of Colorado in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Hill attended his home public schools and the Colorado State College of Agriculture at Fort Collins. Between 1907 and 1915 he was based in Cheyenne Wells . From 1919 to 1922 he directed the Cache La Poudre Consolidated School in Larimer County . In 1923 he was hired as a secretary in the Colorado Farm Bureau . From 1927 to 1953 he worked in the Fort Collins trade.

Politically, Hill was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1924 and 1926 he was a member of the Colorado House of Representatives . In 1940 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second district of Colorado . There he replaced the Democrat Fred N. Cummings on January 3, 1941 , whom he had beaten in the elections. After he was re-elected eight times, he was able to complete nine terms in Congress by January 3, 1959 . From 1953 to 1955 he was chairman of the Select Committee on Small Business . In 1958 Hill declined to run again.

After serving in Congress, he ran a farm southwest of Fort Collins until 1969. In 1964 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in San Francisco . William Hill died in Fort Collins, where he lived in August 1972.

Web links

• William S. Hill in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William S. Hill in the database of Find a Grave (English)