Wilson S. Hill

Wilson Shedric Hill ( * January 19, 1863 in Lodi, Choctaw County, Mississippi, † February 14, 1921 in Greenwood, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1909 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Wilson Hill attended the common schools and then the University of Mississippi in Oxford. After a subsequent law degree from Cumberland University in Tennessee and its made ​​in 1884 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new professional in Winona.

Between 1891 and 1903, Hill was district attorney for the fifth judicial district of the State of Mississippi. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1892 to 1894 he was a member of the City Council of Winona. 1902 Hill was in the fourth district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1903, the successor of Andrew F. Fox. After two elections Hill was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1909 a total of three legislative periods. In 1908, he was not nominated by his party for another term.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Hill again worked as a lawyer. In 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, at the Woodrow Wilson was nominated as presidential candidate of the party. From 1914 to 1921 Hill was District Attorney in the Northern District of Mississippi legal. He died in February 1921 in Greenwood and was buried in Winona.

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