Rees Hill: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Governorofficeholder

|office1=member of the [[Pennsylvania Senate]] for the [[Pennsylvania Senate, District 1820|18th20th district]]

|term_start1=18211823

|term_end1=18221824

|predecessor1=[[Isaac Weaver Jr.]]

|successor1=Jacob M. Wise

|office2=member 18thof Speakerthe of[[Pennsylvania Senate]] for the [[Pennsylvania HouseSenate, ofDistrict 18|18th Representativesdistrict]]

|term_start2= 18191821

|term_end2= 18191822

|predecessor2= [[William Davidson (PennsylvaniaIsaac representative)|WilliamWeaver DavidsonJr.]]

|successor2=Jacob [[JosephM. Lawrence (Pennsylvania)|Joseph Lawrence]]Wise

|office3= 16th18th Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

|term_start3= 18161819

|term_end3= 18161819

|predecessor3= [[JacobWilliam HolgateDavidson (Pennsylvania representative)|William Davidson]]

|successor3= [[WilliamJoseph DavidsonLawrence (Pennsylvania representativepolitician)|WilliamJoseph DavidsonLawrence]]

|office4= member16th Speaker of the [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives]] for [[Greene County, Pennsylvania|Greene County]]

|party= Republican, [[Democratic Republican]], Democraticc

'''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]</ref><ref>{{Citation

| 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.

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>

He served as a colonel in the U.S. army during the War of 1812 leading the 147th Regiment of the [[Pennsylvania Militia]]. His Regimentregiment was originally stationed in 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

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uGsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA141&dqq=%22Rees+hill%22&pg=PA141 }}</ref>

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ojkFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA231&dqq=%22Rees+hill%22&pg=PA231 }}</ref>

| lastlast1 = Scharf

| firstfirst1 = John Thomas

| 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>

* [[List of Speakersspeakers of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives]]

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

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

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