![]() John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army Member of Congress |
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Courtesy
of the U.S. House of Representatives:
Representative from Maryland; born in Annapolis,
Anne Arundel County, Md., May 2, 1879; attended the common schools; was
graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1900 and from the law department
of Harvard University in 1903; was admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice in Boston, Mass.; returned to Baltimore, Md., in 1904
and continued the practice of law; unsuccessful candidate for election
to the Sixty-first Congress in 1908; United States attorney for the district
of Maryland 1910-1915; unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Baltimore in
1915; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916; judge advocate
for the Fifteenth Division, and attached to the Fourteenth Cavalry, Mexican
border service, from August 26 to December 15, 1916; during the First World
War was major and lieutenant colonel in the United States Army in 1918
and 1919; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, and
Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate
for the Senate in 1926; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1928 to
the Seventy-first Congress and in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; moved
to New York City in 1937 and continued the practice of law; returned in
1940 to Annapolis, Md.; died in Washington, D.C., May 23, 1941; interment
in Arlington National Cemetery.
Updated: 26 November 2000 Updated: 7 March 2003 Updated: 10 September 2005 |
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