Ebenezer J. Hill
Ebenezer J. Hill | |
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Asa Smith | |
| Succeeded by | Lyman S. Catlin |
| Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives | |
| In office 1866–1867 | |
| Preceded by | Chester Tolles, F. St. John Lockwood |
| Succeeded by | Asa Woodward, D. H. Webb |
| In office 1862–1863 | |
| Preceded by | Josiah Carter, Peter L. Cunningham |
| Succeeded by | William C. Street, Joseph H Cummings |
| In office 1851–1854 | |
| Preceded by | Clark Bissell, Algernon Beard |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 4, 1845 Helena Charlotte Hill Weed (1875–1958), Elsie Mary Hill (1883–1970) |
| Residence | Norwalk, Connecticut |
| Alma mater | Center Academy Yale College |
| Occupation | banker, businessman |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | United States Union |
| Branch/service | Union Army |
| Years of service | 1863–1865 |
| Battles/wars | Civil War |
Ebenezer J. Hill (August 4, 1845 – September 27, 1917) was an American politician who was a
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]
See also
- List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
Footnotes
- ^ "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.
- ISBN 0-8063-4823-2. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
Sources
- United States Congress. "Ebenezer J. Hill (id: H000591)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Ebenezer J. Hill, late a representative from Connecticut, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1919
External links
- Ebenezer J. Hill papers (MS 279). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. [1]
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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