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Robert Potter Hill
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Oklahoma's 5th district
In office
January 3, 1937 – October 29, 1937
Preceded byJoshua B. Lee
Succeeded byGomer G. Smith
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Illinois's 25th district
In office
March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915
Preceded byNapoleon B. Thistlewood
Succeeded byEdward E. Denison
Member of the
Illinois House of Representatives
from the 50th district
In office
January 4, 1911 – January 1913
Personal details
BornApril 18, 1874 (1874-04-18)
Ewing, Illinois, United States
DiedOctober 29, 1937 (1937-10-30) (aged 63)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseLora Corder Hill
ChildrenRobert Potter Hill
Alma materEwing College
ProfessionAttorney, politician, judge

Robert Potter Hill (April 18, 1874 – October 29, 1937) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Illinois and from Oklahoma.

Biography

Born near Ewing, Illinois, Hill was the son of James B. and Rebecca Spilman Hill, and attended the public schools. With a two-year interruption during which he taught school in Franklin County from 1891 to 1893; he graduated with a bachelor's degree from Ewing College in 1896. In 1899 he moved to Marion, Illinois, where he studied law and was a Justice of the Peace. A year later, he married Lora Corder. The Hills had one son, Robert Potter.

Career

Hill was admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in Marion. He was Police magistrate of Marion in 1903 and City attorney of Marion from 1908 to 1910.

In the 1910 general election, Hill won one of the three seats in the Illinois House of Representatives from the 50th district. The 50th district included Franklin, Williamson, Union, Alexander, and Pulaski counties. Hill, a Democrat, was sworn into office on January 4, 1911, alongside Republicans R. D. Kirkpatrick and Hall Whiteaker.

In 1912, he was elected to Congress from Illinois to the 63rd United States Congress, Hill served from March 4, 1913, to March 3, 1915. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress, he resumed the practice of law.

Hill moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1918 and continued the practice of law. He was appointed assistant county attorney, Oklahoma County, in 1925 and served until 1929. He served as district judge of the thirteenth judicial district from 1931 until his resignation on December 15, 1936, having been elected to Congress.

Elected as a Democrat from Oklahoma to the Seventy-fifth Congress, he served from January 3, 1937, until his death.

Death

Hill died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, on October 29, 1937 (age 63 years, 194 days). He is interred at Memorial Park Cemetery in Oklahoma City.

See also

References

  1. "Robert Potter Hill". Oklahoma Historical Society. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  2. "Robert Potter Hill". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  3. Illinois Blue Book 1911-1912. Illinois Secretary of State. p. 241. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
  4. Illinois blue book, 1911-1912 Page 189
  5. Illinois blue book, 1911-1912 Page 314
  6. "Robert Potter Hill". Govtrack US Congress. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  7. "Robert Potter Hill". Govtrack US Congress. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  8. "Robert Potter Hill". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 4 June 2013.

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Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded byNapoleon B. Thistlewood Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Illinois's 25th congressional district
1913-1915 		Succeeded byEdward E. Denison
Preceded byJoshua B. Lee Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Oklahoma's 1st congressional district
1937 		Succeeded byGomer G. Smith
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