Mark Langdon Hill | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives | |
| In office March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1823 | |
| Preceded by | Benjamin Orr |
| Succeeded by | Ebenezer Herrick |
| Constituency | Massachusetts 16th (1819–1821) Maine 3rd (1821–1823) |
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| Born | (1772-06-30)June 30, 1772 |
| Died | November 26, 1842(1842-11-26) (aged 70) Phippsburg,Maine, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican |
| Occupation | Merchant |
Mark Langdon Hill (June 30, 1772 – November 26, 1842) wasUnited States Representative fromMassachusetts and fromMaine. He was born inBiddeford (then a part of theProvince of Massachusetts Bay) on June 30, 1772. He attended the public schools, then became a merchant and shipbuilder inPhippsburg. He was an overseer and trustee ofBowdoin College. He is the nephew of John Langdon. New Hampshire governor, Senator and patriot.
Hill was elected a member of theMassachusetts House of Representatives, and served in theMassachusetts State Senate. He served as judge of the court of common pleas in 1810. He was elected a member of theAmerican Antiquarian Society in 1816.[1] He was elected as aDemocratic-Republican from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821). Hill andJohn Holmes were two of the seven representatives from the district of Maine willing to vote for theMissouri 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 aDemocratic-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 atBath in 1824. Hill died in Phippsburg on November 26, 1842. His interment was in the churchyard of the Congregational Church in Phippsburg Center.
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