Wilson S. Hill

Wilson Shedric Hill (born January 19, 1863 in Lodi , Choctaw County , Mississippi , † February 14, 1921 in Greenwood , Mississippi) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1909 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Wilson Hill attended public schools in his home country and then the University of Mississippi at Oxford . After a subsequent law degree at Cumberland University in Tennessee and his admission as a lawyer in 1884, he began to practice in Winona in his new profession.

Between 1891 and 1903, Hill was a district attorney in the Mississippi state's fifth judicial district. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . From 1892 to 1894 he was a member of the Winona City Council. In 1902 Hill was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth district of Mississippi . There he took over from Andrew F. Fox on March 4, 1903 . After two re-elections, Hill was able to complete a total of three terms in Congress by March 3, 1909 . In 1908 he was not nominated by his party for another term.

After his tenure in the House of Representatives was over, Hill returned to practice as a lawyer. In 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , where Woodrow Wilson was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. From 1914 to 1921, Hill was a district attorney for the northern Mississippi legal district. He died in Greenwood in February 1921 and was buried in Winona.

Web links

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

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