Mark Langdon Hill

Mark Langdon Hill
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Maine's 3rd district
In office
March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823
Preceded byDistrict created
Succeeded byEbenezer Herrick
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 16th district
In office
March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821
Preceded byBenjamin Orr
Succeeded byDistrict eliminated until 1913[1]
Personal details
Born(1772-06-30)June 30, 1772
Biddeford, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America
DiedNovember 26, 1842(1842-11-26) (aged 70)
Phippsburg, Maine, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic-Republican
OccupationMerchant

Mark Langdon Hill (June 30, 1772 – November 26, 1842) was United States Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine. He was born in Biddeford (then a part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay) on June 30, 1772. He attended the public schools, then became a merchant and shipbuilder in Phippsburg. He was an overseer and trustee of Bowdoin College. He is the nephew of John Langdon. New Hampshire governor, Senator and patriot.

Hill was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and served in the Massachusetts State Senate. He served as judge of the court of common pleas in 1810. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1816.[2] He was elected as a Democratic-Republican from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821). Hill and John Holmes were the two of the seven representatives from the district of Maine willing to vote for the Missouri compromise, which on a 90-87 vote allowed Maine to become a state at the cost of letting Missouri be a slave state. They were both strongly attacked in the Maine press for this compromise.

Hill was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress from Maine after the state was admitted to the Union (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823). He was postmaster of Phippsburg 1819-1824. He was appointed as a collector of customs at Bath in 1824. Hill died in Phippsburg on November 26, 1842. His interment was in the churchyard of the Congregational Church in Phippsburg Center.

  1. ^ This district was moved to Maine as a result of the Missouri Compromise in 1820.
  2. ^ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory