Mark Langdon Hill
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Mark Langdon Hill, a Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine; born in Biddeford, York County, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts), June 30, 1772; attended the public schools; merchant and shipbuilder at Phippsburg, Maine; overseer and trustee of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1796-1842; member of the State house of representatives 1797-1808, 1810, 1813, and 1814; served in the State senate in 1804 and 1815-1817; judge of the court of common pleas in 1810; served on the General Court of Massachusetts; elected as a Republican from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821); when Maine was separated from Massachusetts and admitted as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress from that State (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); postmaster of Phippsburg, Maine, 1819-1824; appointed as a collector of customs at Bath, Maine, in 1824; died in Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County, November 26, 1842; interment in the churchyard of the Congregational Church, Phippsburg Center, Maine.
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.
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- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Rolde, Neil (1990). Maine: A Narrative History. Gardiner, Me: Harpswell Press, 143-144. ISBN 0-88448-069-0.
| Preceded by Benjamin Orr |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 16th congressional district (Maine district) March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821 |
Succeeded by District moved to Maine |
| Preceded by District moved from Massachusetts |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine's 3rd congressional district March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823 |
Succeeded by Jeremiah O'Brien |
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