William Henry Hill (New York)

William Henry Hill ( born March 23, 1876 in Plains, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, † July 24, 1972 in Binghamton, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1921 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Hill attended the common schools and the high school in Binghamton. Between 1898 and 1901 he was mayor of the town Lester Shire (now Johnson City). There he served from 1902 to 1910 as a post holder. He also was in this place 1898-1921 to publish a newspaper. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. From 1914 to 1918 he sat in the Senate from New York.

In the congressional elections of 1918, Hill was the 34th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Winthrop Fairchild on March 4, 1919. Since he resigned in 1920 to another candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1921. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages or to the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives William Hill remained politically active. In the years 1924, 1928, 1932, 1940 and 1944, he participated as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant. In 1925 he was appointed to the New York State Parks Commission, whose chairman in 1933. In 1928 he was chairman of the New York Hoover -for- President Committee, which supported the presidential campaign of Herbert Hoover. In 1932 he was deputy chairman of the Republican campaign committee in the east. He also served on the State Board of Republicans. He was also curator of the Syracuse University. Moreover, he worked until 1960 as a newspaper editor. William Hill died on 24 July 1972 at the age of 96 in Binghamton.