Benjamin C. Hilliard

Benjamin Clark Hilliard ( born January 9, 1868 Osceola, Clarke County, Iowa; † August 7, 1951 in Denver, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1919 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Benjamin Hilliard attended the public schools in Iowa and Kansas. He then worked as a teacher in Kansas itself. After studying law at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and its made ​​in 1891 admitted to the bar Hilliard began to work in his new profession in Kansas City (Missouri ). In 1893 he moved to Denver, the capital of the State of Colorado. From 1896 to 1897 he was attorney for the city of Highlands. Between 1897 and 1907, Hilliard District Attorney in Elbert County, from 1907 to 1913, he held the same job at Grand County from.

Hilliard was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1902 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Colorado. From 1909 to 1917 he was with some interruptions member of the school board of the city of Denver. In 1914 he was in the first district of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he replaced George J. Kindel on March 4, 1915. After a re-election in 1916 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1919 two legislative sessions. In 1918 he abandoned a bid again. After that, he worked again as a lawyer. Since 1930 he was a judge at the Supreme Court of Colorado, which he chairs, as Chief Justice temporarily took over later.