Mark Langdon Hill

Mark Langdon Hill ( * June 30, 1772 in Biddeford, Massachusetts, † November 26, 1842 in Phippsburg, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1819 and 1821 he represented the state of Massachusetts, and from 1821 to 1823 the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mark Hill was born 1772 in Biddeford, at that time still belonged to the Province of Massachusetts Bay. After the founding of Maine in 1820, the city fell to that State. Hill attended the common schools and then became a merchant and shipbuilder in Phippsburg. Since 1796 until his death he was on the board and trustee of Bowdoin College in Brunswick. Politically, Hill member of the Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1797 and 1814 he was several times as a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In 1804, and again from 1815 to 1817 he was a member of the State Senate.

1818 Hill was in the 16th electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1819, to succeed Benjamin Orr. During this time, the Missouri Compromise was worked out by Henry Clay. Hill and John Holmes were the only representatives from the District of Maine, who agreed to this compromise. The result was both the retention of slavery in Missouri as well as the establishment of the slave- free state of Maine, which was split off from Massachusetts. Mark Hill has been confirmed in the congressional elections of 1820. Since his district now belonged to the state of Maine, he represented between 4 March 1821 and the March 3, 1823 the third constituency.

Between 1819 and 1824, including during his time in Congress, was Hill postmaster of Phippsburg. In 1824 he worked for the customs authority in Bath. Mark Hill died on 26 November 1842 in Phippsburg.