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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaJoshua HILL
(1812-1891)
Senate Years of Service:
1871-1873Party: RepublicanHILL, Joshua, a
Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born in Abbeville
District, S.C., January 10, 1812; attended the common schools and
was privately tutored; studied law; admitted to the bar and
commenced practice in Monticello, Jasper County, Ga.; elected by
the American Party to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses
and served from March 4, 1857, to January 23, 1861, when he
resigned; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1863; appointed
collector of customs at Savannah in 1866 and register in bankruptcy
in 1867 but declined both offices; was elected as a Republican to
the United States Senate on July 28, 1868, took the oath of office
on February 1, 1871, after Georgia’s readmission to
representatation in Congress, and served until March 3, 1873; was
not a candidate for reelection; returned to Madison, Ga., and
resumed the practice of law; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1877; died in Madison, Ga., March 6, 1891; interment
in Madison Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Mellichamp, Josephine. “Joshua Hill.” In
Senators from Georgia. pp. 148-51. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode
Publishers, 1976; Roberts, Lucien E. “The Political Career of
Joshua Hill, Georgia Unionist.” Georgia Historical
Quarterly 21 (March 1937): 50-72.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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