Baron Hill

Baron Paul Hill ( * June 23, 1953 in Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He was from 2007 to 2011 one of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives for the state of Indiana.

Biography

After visiting the Seymour High School, he studied at Furman University in South Carolina. His political career began as the Democratic candidate in the election to the House of Representatives from Indiana, where he remained until 1990. In 1990 he ran for the first time for the House of Representatives of the United States but still without success.

In 1998, he was first elected as an MP in the U.S. House of Representatives and represented there, from 3 January 1999 to January 3, 2005, the interests of the ninth congressional district of Indiana. In the congressional elections in 2004 he was defeated his Republican challenger Mike Sodrel. This he was able to defeat at the following 2006 congressional elections with 50 percent of the vote again, which he again represented the 9th District of Indiana in Congress from the 3rd January 2007. There he was a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce ( Committee on Energy and Commerce ). He lost his seat in the 2011 elections to the Republican Todd Young.

He was Deputy Chairman for substantive policy of the Blue Dog Coalition, a financial and socio-politically moderate conservative set alliance of MPs from the Democratic Party and a member of Democrats for Life of America, an advocacy group of Democrats who belongs to the pro-life movement and of a prohibition abortion begins.