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{{Short description|American politician}}
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|name= Rees Hill
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|office1=member of the [[Pennsylvania Senate]] for the [[Pennsylvania Senate, District
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|successor2=Jacob
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|term_start4= 1816
|term4=1814-1820<br/>1810-1813▼
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|birth_date={{birth-date|August 15, 1776}}▼
|predecessor4= [[Jacob Holgate]]
|successor4= [[William Davidson (Pennsylvania representative)|William Davidson]]
|office5= member of the [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives]] for [[Greene County, Pennsylvania|Greene County]]
|birth_place=[[Frederick County, Virginia]]
|death_date={{Death date and age|1852|11|24|1776|4}}
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'''Rees Hill''' (August 15, 1776 – November 24, 1852) was a U.S. army [[colonel]]
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| date = November 15, 1817 }}</ref> including 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 Senate]] for the [[Pennsylvania Senate, District 18|18th district]] from 1821 to 1822 and the [[Pennsylvania Senate, District 20|20th district]] from 1823 to 1824.
==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==
He served as a colonel
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| 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
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==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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| year = 1884
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| newspaper=National Standard
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| 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
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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
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| newspaper=Franklin Gazette
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▲ | 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==
* [[List of
==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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