John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill

John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill ( born May 2, 1879 in Annapolis, Maryland, † May 23 1941 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1927 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Hill attended the common schools and then studied until 1900 at the Johns Hopkins University. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his 1903 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Boston in this profession. Already in 1904, he transferred his residence and his law firm to Baltimore. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1908 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives; 1915 failed to include an application for the post of mayor of Baltimore. From 1910 to 1915 Hill was United States Attorney for Maryland. In June 1916 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago. During a border conflict with Mexico in 1916, he worked as a military lawyer. During World War II he was in the years 1918 and 1919, first major, and later lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army.

In the congressional elections of 1920, Hill was selected in the third electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Charles Pearce Coady on March 4, 1921. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1927 three legislative periods. In 1926 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. In the years 1928 and 1936 failed more Congress candidates. Otherwise Hill practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1937 and 1940 he practiced this profession in New York City, after which he returned to Maryland. He died on 23 May 1941 in Washington, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

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