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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaHILL, Benjamin Harvey
(1823—1882)
Senate Years of Service:
1877-1882
Party:
Democrat
HILL, 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.
Chapman, Katherine Mood, ed. “Some Benjamin Harvey Hill Letters.” Georgia Historical Quarterly
47 (September 1963): 305-19; (December 1963): 436-52.
Coulter, E. Merton. “Alexander H. Stephens Challenges Benjamin H. Hill to a Duel.” Georgia Historical Quarterly
56 (Summer 1972): 175-92.
___. “Amnesty for all Except Jefferson Davis: The Hill-Blaine Debate of 1876.” Georgia Historical Quarterly
56 (Winter 1972): 453-94.
___. “The New South: Benjamin H. Hill’s Speech Before the Alumni of the University of Georgia, 1871.” Georgia Historical Quarterly
57 (Summer 1973): 179-99.
Hill, Benjamin Harvey, Jr. Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia
. Atlanta: H.C. Hudgins & Co., 1891.
Martin, Tommie Carolyn. “Benjamin Harvey Hill in Georgia Reconstruction.” Master’s thesis, Emory University, 1928.
Mellichamp, Josephine. “Benjamin H. Hill.” In Senators from Georgia
, pp. 162-68. Huntsville, AL: Strode Publishers, 1976.
Pearce, Haywood J., Jr. Benjamin H. Hill, Secession and Reconstruction
. 1928. Reprint. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.
Reed, John C. “Reminiscences of Ben Hill.” South Atlantic Quarterly
5 (April 1906): 134-49.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Benjamin Harvey Hill (a Senator from Georgia): Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives
. 47th Cong., 2d sess., 1883. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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