Mark Langdon Hill (June 30, 1772 – November 26, 1842) was United States Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine. He was born in Biddeford (then a part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay) on June 30, 1772. He attended the public schools, then became a merchant and shipbuilder in Phippsburg. He was an overseer and trustee of Bowdoin College. He is the nephew of John Langdon. New Hampshire governor, Senator and patriot.
Mark Langdon Hill | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine's 3rd district | |
| In office March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823 | |
| Preceded by | District created |
| Succeeded by | Ebenezer Herrick |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 16th district | |
| In office March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821 | |
| Preceded by | Benjamin Orr |
| Succeeded by | District eliminated until 1913[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 30, 1772 Biddeford, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America |
| Died | November 26, 1842 (aged 70) Phippsburg, Maine, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican |
| Occupation | Merchant |
Hill was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and served in the Massachusetts State Senate. He served as judge of the court of common pleas in 1810. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1816.[2] He was elected as a Democratic-Republican from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821). Hill and John Holmes were the two of the seven representatives from the district of Maine willing to vote for the Missouri compromise, which on a 90-87 vote allowed Maine to become a state at the cost of letting Missouri be a slave state. They were both strongly attacked in the Maine press for this compromise.
Hill was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress from Maine after the state was admitted to the Union (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823). He was postmaster of Phippsburg 1819-1824. He was appointed as a collector of customs at Bath in 1824. Hill died in Phippsburg on November 26, 1842. His interment was in the churchyard of the Congregational Church in Phippsburg Center.
References
edit- ^ This district was moved to Maine as a result of the Missouri Compromise in 1820.
- ^ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
- United States Congress. "Mark Langdon Hill (id: H000602)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Rolde, Neil (1990). Maine: A Narrative History. Gardiner, Me: Harpswell Press. pp. 143–144. ISBN 0-88448-069-0.