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{{Short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox
|name= Rees Hill
|image=
|caption=
|office1=member of the [[Pennsylvania Senate]] for the [[Pennsylvania Senate, District 20|20th district]]
|term_start1=1823
|office= Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives▼
|term_end1=1824
|term_start= 1816▼
|predecessor1=
|successor1=
|predecessor= [[Jacob Holgate]]▼
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|birth_date={{birth-date|August 15, 1776}}▼
|predecessor2=[[Isaac Weaver Jr.]]
|successor2=Jacob M. Wise
|term_start3= 1819
|term_end3= 1819
|term_start4= 1816
|successor4= [[William Davidson (Pennsylvania representative)|William Davidson]]
|office5= member of the [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives]] for [[Greene County, Pennsylvania|Greene County]]
|term5=1814-1820<br/>1810-1813
|birth_place=[[Frederick County, Virginia]]
|death_date={{Death date and age|1852|11|24|1776|4}}
|death_place=near [[Winchester, Virginia]]
|spouse=Nancy Heaton
|profession=
|party= [[Democratic Republican]]
|age=
▲|office2= Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
▲|term_start2= 1819
▲|term_end2= 1819
▲|predecessor2= [[William Davidson (Pennsylvania representative)|William Davidson]]
▲|successor2= [[Joseph Lawrence (Pennsylvania)|Joseph Lawrence]]
}}
'''Rees Hill''' (August 15, 1776 – November 24, 1852) was a U.S. army
| title = Public Debt
| newspaper=Berks and Schuylkill Journal
| page = 2
| date = April 28, 1821 }}</ref> in the [[War of 1812]] and a politician who served as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] and [[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] member of the [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives]]
| title = A List of Senators and Members of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
| newspaper=Berks and Schuylkill Journal
| page = 2
| date = November 15, 1817 }}</ref>
==Early life==
Hill was born in [[Frederick County, Virginia]] to Robert and Priscilla (Bowen) Hill.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leckey |first1=Howard L. |title=The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families |date=1977 |publisher=Greene County Historical Society |location=Waynesburg, Pennsylvania |isbn=0-8063-5097-0 |page=290 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UM7gBFLDzvkC&q=Rees+Hill&pg=PA290 |accessdate=15 November 2019}}</ref> He conducted most of his business in Pennsylvania, became a successful merchant in [[Waynesburg, Pennsylvania]]<ref name=SpeakerBio/> and married Nancy Heaton.<ref name=SenateBio>{{cite web |title=Pennsylvania State Senate - Rees Bowen Hill Biography |url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=4750&body=S |website=www.legis.state.pa.us |accessdate=10 November 2019}}</ref>
==Military service==
| title = Erie, July 30, 1813
| newspaper=True American
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| pages = 141–142
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uGsSAAAAYAAJ&
Rees Hill (along with Thomas Sargeant of [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|Harrisburg]], [[Cromwell Pearce]] of [[Chester County, Pennsylvania|Chester County]], and [[Samuel McKean]] of [[Bradford County, Pennsylvania|Bradford County]]) was appointed as an aide de camp to Governor [[William Findlay (governor)|William Findlay]], the commander in chief of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.<ref>{{citation
| title = Appointments by the Governor
| newspaper=Berks and Schuylkill Journal
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| page = 2 }}</ref>
On March 3, 1819, Congress and President [[James Monroe]] approved an act to reimburse Hill for money he had spent for expenses of his troops during the War of 1812.<ref>{{citation
| title = The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America
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| year = 1846
| page = 231
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ojkFAAAAYAAJ&
==Political career==
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Hill was Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in two non-consecutive years (1816 and 1819).<ref>{{Citation
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| last2 = Westcott
| first2 = Thompson
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| year = 1884
| page = 1766
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8uYkAAAAYAAJ
| title = (Legislative)
| newspaper=National Standard
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| issue=6
| page=3
| date=December 8, 1818 }}</ref> On December 7, 1819 (for the session beginning in December, 1819 and lasting through most of 1820), he came in third in a vote for speaker with 14 of the 93 votes cast. (The speaker elected was [[Joseph Lawrence (Pennsylvania politician)|Joseph Lawrence]] with 56 votes. Other votes were: [[Phineas Jenks]] – 21, Wilson Smith – 1, and William Lehman – 1).<ref>{{Citation
| newspaper=Carlisle Republican
| volume=1
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| date=December 15, 1819 }}</ref>
He served as chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means in the Pennsylvania House in 1820.<ref>{{Citation
| title = Letters
| newspaper=Franklin Gazette
| page = 2
▲ | date = November 2, 1822 }}</ref>
After his political career ended, Hill returned to Virginia and managed the estates of his father and Uncles. He died on November 24, 1852, in Frederick County, Virginia and was interred in Winchester, Virginia.<ref name=SpeakerBio>{{cite web |title=Pennsylvania House of Representatives - Rees P. Hill 1815-1817, 1818-1819 |url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/SpeakerBios/SpeakerBio.cfm?id=95 |website=www.legis.state.pa.us |accessdate=12 November 2019}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://archive.org/details/troopsundercomma01harr Troops under the command of Col. Fenton, Col. Rees Hill, et
*[http://trees.ancestry.com/view/military.aspx?tid=1228392&pid=-1498196383&gss=seotrees Ancestry.com: Rees Hill Military Page]
*[http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/frederick/wills/b3000001.txt Will of Henry Beatty, father-in-law of Rees Hill]
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