CDV OF GEORGIA SENATOR JOSHUA HILL

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Bust view of Hill. Image is clear with very good contrast. Mount is clean and in good condition with pencil name and photographer's imprint at lower edge. Photographer's backmark, C.D. Fredericks & Co., New York.

Joshua Hill (January 10, 1812 – March 6, 1891) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from the state of Georgia.

Hill is said to have had "strong Whig and Unionist principles" which aligned him with Whig Party until that organization dissolved in Georgia. Hill then became a member of the American Party (also called the Know-Nothing Party). The Know Nothing Party in his congressional district nominated Hill to run for the United States House of Representatives from Georgia in 1857, and it was under that banner that he was elected. He was re-elected to a second term in 1859, but resigned on January 23, 1861, shortly after the state convention passed an ordinance of secession in Georgia.

Following the end of the Civil War, Hill was elected to the United States Senate from Georgia as a Republican in 1867. However, he did not serve in the Senate until 1871 when Georgia was readmitted to the United States. He served in the Senate until the end of his term in 1873 and did not run for reelection. He resumed the practice of law and died in Madison, Georgia.

Hill died in Madison on March 6, 1891, with interment in Madison Cemetery.

This image was from the collection of the late William A. Turner.  [jet] [PH:L]

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