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Line 1: {{Short description\|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates\|date=November 2011}} {{Infobox officeholder Line 26 ⟶ 27: \|office5= member of the [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives]] for [[Greene County, Pennsylvania\|Greene County]] \|term5=1814-1820<br/>1810-1813 \|birth_date={{birth- date text\|August 15, 1776}} \|birth_place=[[Frederick County, Virginia]] \|death_date={{Death date and age\|1852\|11\|24\|1776\|4}} Line 50 ⟶ 51: ==Military service== He served as a colonel during the War of 1812 leading the 147th Regiment of the [[Pennsylvania Militia]]. His ~~Regiment~~regiment 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 \| title = Erie, July 30, 1813 \| newspaper=True American Line 133 ⟶ 134: He was elected to the Pennsylvania Senate for the [[Pennsylvania Senate, District 18\|18th district]] in November, 1820 and served from 1821 to 1822. He also represented the [[Pennsylvania Senate, District 20\|20th district]] from 1823 to 1824.<ref name=SenateBio/> 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 ~~Speakers~~speakers of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives]] ==References== Line 142 ⟶ 143: ==External links== [https://archive.org/details/troopsundercomma01harr Troops under the command of Col. Fenton, Col. Rees Hill, et. al.] [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] Line 151 ⟶ 152: [[Category:1776 births]] [[Category:1852 deaths]] [[Category:19th-century American ~~politicians~~legislators]] [[Category:~~American~~United ~~army~~States Army personnel of the War of 1812]] [[Category:Burials in Virginia]] [[Category:Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives]] Line 160 ⟶ 161: [[Category:Pennsylvania state senators]] [[Category:People from Frederick County, Virginia]] [[Category:~~People~~Politicians from Greene County, Pennsylvania]] [[Category:People from Pennsylvania in the War of 1812]] [[Category:Speakers of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives]]