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Hill, John

merchant, state senator, congressman, was born June 10, 1821, in Catskill, N. Y. In 1860 he was elected to the state legislature; was twice re-elected, and was made speaker of the assembly. In 1866 he was elected a representative from New Jersey to the fortieth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyfirst and forty-second congresses. He was a state senator from 1875 to 1878; and was again a representative in the fortyseventh congress. He died July 24, 1884, in Boonton, N. J.

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