Ebenezer_J._Hill

Ebenezer J. Hill

Ebenezer J. Hill

American politician (1845–1917)


Ebenezer J. Hill (August 4, 1845 – September 27, 1917) was an American politician who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut's 4th congressional district from 1895 to 1913 and from 1915 until his death in 1917. He had previously served as a member of the Connecticut Senate from 1886 to 1887.

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Early life

He was born on August 4, 1845, in Redding, Connecticut, to Reverend Moses Hill and Charlotte Ilsley McLellan. He attended the public schools and then the Center Academy, and Yale College in 1865 and 1866. During the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army in 1863 and served until the close of the war.

Political career

Hill engaged in business and banking in Norwalk. He served as a Burgess of Norwalk. He served as chairman of the board of school visitors. Hill served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884. He served as member of the State senate in 1886 and 1887. He served one term on the Republican State central committee.

Hill was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1913).[1]

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Sixty-first Congress).

He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1912 for reelection to the Sixty-third Congress.

Hill was elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death in Norwalk, Connecticut, September 27, 1917. He was interred in Riverside Cemetery in Norwalk, Connecticut.[2]

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Footnotes

  1. "S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903". GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. November 9, 1903. pp. 12–13. Retrieved July 2, 2023.
  2. Spencer, Thomas E. (1998). Where They're Buried. Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, Inc. p. 158. ISBN 0-8063-4823-2. Retrieved July 18, 2020.

Sources

  • Ebenezer J. Hill papers (MS 279). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

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