John Gill, Jr.

John Gill Jr. ( born June 9, 1850 in Baltimore, Maryland, † January 27, 1918 ) was an American politician. Between 1905 and 1911 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Gill attended Hampden - Sydney College in Virginia, and then studied until 1870 at the University of Maryland. After a subsequent law degree in 1871 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1874 and 1877 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland; 1882 to 1886 and the years 1904 and 1905 he was a member of the State Senate. From 1879 to 1874 Gill worked for the legal department of the city of Baltimore. In the years 1884, 1888 and 1892, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, on each of which Grover Cleveland was nominated as a presidential candidate. From 1888 to 1897 he worked as a chief of police (Police Commissioner).

In the congressional elections of 1904 Gill was in the fourth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James William Denny on March 4, 1905. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 three legislative periods. In 1910 he opted not to run again. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Judge Gill was at the wheel of the Court of Appeal in Baltimore, where he died on 27 January 1918.