William S. Hill

William Silas Hill ( born January 20, 1886 in Kelly, Nemaha County, Kansas; † August 28, 1972 in Fort Collins, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1941 and 1959 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Hill attended the common schools and the Colorado State College of Agriculture in Fort Collins. Between 1907 and 1915 he was a resident of Cheyenne Wells. From 1919 to 1922 he headed the Cache La Poudre Consolidated School in Larimer County. In 1923 he was hired as a secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture ( Farm Bureau ) of Colorado. Since 1927 to 1953 he was engaged in trade in Fort Collins.

Politically, Hill member of the Republican Party. Between 1924 and 1926, he was a delegate to the House of Representatives from Colorado. In 1940 he was selected in the second district of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he broke on January 3, 1941 from the Democrats Fred N. Cummings, whom he had defeated in the elections. After he was re-elected eight times, he was able to complete in 1959 nine parliamentary terms in Congress until January 3. From 1953 to 1955 he was chairman of the Select Committee on Small Business. In 1958, Hill gave up another candidacy.

After his time in Congress, he managed until 1969 a farm south-west of Fort Collins. In 1964 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. William Hill died in August 1972 in his home in Fort Collins.