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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaBenjamin Harvey HILL
(1823-1882)
Senate Years of Service:
1877-1882Party: DemocratHILL, Benjamin Harvey,
(cousin of Hugh Lawson White Hill), a Representative and a Senator
from Georgia; born in Hillsborough, Jasper County, Ga., September
14, 1823; pursued classical studies and graduated from the
University of Georgia at Athens in 1844; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1844 and commenced practice in Lagrange, Troup County,
Ga.; member, State house of representatives 1851; member, State
senate 1859-1860; actively opposed disunion until the secession
ordinance had been adopted; delegate to the Confederate Provisional
Congress in 1861; senator in the Confederate Congress 1861-1865;
arrested at the close of the Civil War and eventually paroled;
resumed the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Representative-elect Garnett McMillan; reelected to the Forty-fifth
Congress and served from May 5, 1875, until his resignation,
effective March 3, 1877; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate and served from March 4, 1877, until his death in Atlanta,
Ga., August 16, 1882; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the
Contingent Expense (Forty-sixth Congress); interment in Oakland
Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Hill, Benjamin Harvey, Jr. Senator Benjamin Hill
of Georgia, His Life, Speeches and Writings. Atlanta: H.C.
Hudgkins and Co., 1891; Pearce, Haywood. Benjamin H. Hill,
Secession and Reconstruction. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1928.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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