Rees Hill: Difference between revisions

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'''Rees Hill''' (August 15, 1776 – November 24, 1852) was a U.S. army colonel<ref>[https://books.google.ca/books?id=UM7gBFLDzvkC&pg=PA290&lpg=PA290&dq=Rees+Hill+Pennsylvania+was+born&source=bl&ots=8_8Ll-Fcwr&sig=K4iuo1syZcbuUwqQnYgMh8opalE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oJKdVPmrDdayoQT__4G4DA&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Rees%20Hill%20Pennsylvania%20was%20born&f=false[colonel]]</ref><ref>{{Citation

| 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]] fromfor [[Greene County, Pennsylvania|Greene County]] from 1810 to 1813 and from 1814 to 1820,<ref>{{Citation

| date = November 15, 1817 }}</ref> speakerincluding as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, in 1816 and 1819. He also served as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] member of the [[Pennsylvania State SenatorSenate]] for the [[Pennsylvania Senate, District 18|18th district]] from 1821 to 1822 and the [[Pennsylvania Senate, District 20|20th district]] from 1823 to 1824.

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>

AsHe served as a colonel induring the U.S.War armyof during1812 leading the War147th Regiment of 1812,the [[Pennsylvania Militia]]. His heregiment was originally stationed atin [[Erie, Pennsylvania]] to guard a naval facility.<ref name=SpeakerBio/> On July 30, 1813, his detachment received orders to join the northwestern army and served in Ohio and Michigan.<ref>{{Citation

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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

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| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8uYkAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA1766,M1 }}</ref> His first election as speaker took place on December 5, 1815.<ref>{{Citation

| 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

He served as chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means in the Pennsylvania House in 1820.<ref>{{Citation

| date = February 22, 1820 }}</ref> andHe was elected ato the Pennsylvania State SenatorSenate for the [[Pennsylvania Senate, District 18|18th district]] in November, 1820 and served from 1821 to 1822. ServiceHe inalso represented the [[Pennsylvania State Senate]], for theDistrict 20|20th district,]] beganfrom on1823 Decemberto 6, 18201824.<ref name=SenateBio/>{{Citation

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>

* [[SpeakerList of speakers of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives]]

*[https://archive.org/details/troopsundercomma01harr Troops under the command of Col. Fenton, Col. Rees Hill, et. al.]

[[Category:19th-century American politicianslegislators]]

[[Category:AmericanUnited peopleStates Army personnel of the War of 1812]]

[[Category:PeoplePoliticians from Greene County, Pennsylvania]]