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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Maine / MassachusettsMark Langdon HILL
(1772-1842)
HILL, Mark Langdon, a
Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine; born in
Biddeford, York County, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts),
June 30, 1772; attended the public schools; merchant and
shipbuilder at Phippsburg, Maine; overseer and trustee of Bowdoin
College, Brunswick, Maine, 1796-1842; member of the State house of
representatives 1797-1808, 1810, 1813, and 1814; served in the
State senate in 1804 and 1815-1817; judge of the court of common
pleas in 1810; served on the General Court of Massachusetts;
elected as a Republican from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth
Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); when Maine was separated
from Massachusetts and admitted as a State into the Union was
elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress from that State
(March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); postmaster of Phippsburg, Maine,
1819-1824; appointed as a collector of customs at Bath, Maine, in
1824; died in Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County, November 26, 1842;
interment in the churchyard of the Congregational Church,
Phippsburg Center, Maine.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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