Ralph Hill (representative)

Ralph Hill ( born October 12, 1827 Trumbull County, Ohio; † August 20, 1899 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1867 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ralph Hill attended the common schools and after the Kinsman Academy and Grand River Academy in Austinburg. From 1846 to 1850 Hill was working as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree from the New York State and National Law School in Ballston (New York) and his 1851 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in Albany in this profession. In the same year he returned to Ohio, where he worked as a lawyer in Jefferson. During this time he founded a school in Austinburg. In August 1852 Hill moved his residence and his law firm to Columbus in Indiana.

Politically, Hill member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1864 he was in the third electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry W. Harrington on March 4, 1865. Since he resigned in 1866 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1867. During this time the Civil War ended. After Hill experienced as congressman the violent clashes between his party and the new President Andrew Johnson the reconstruction policy. During his time as a congressman of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1865.

Between 1869 and 1875, Ralph Hill headed the tax authority in the third financial district of Indiana. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer again. Since 1879 he lived in Indianapolis, where he died on 20 August 1899.