Joshua Hill

Joshua Hill (January 10, 1812March 6, 1891) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from the state of Georgia. Early years and legal practice Joshua Hill was born in 1812, in the Abbeville District, South Carolina to Joshua Hill, Sr. and Nancy Ann Wyatt Collier. He attended the common schools, and upon graduation took up the study of law. In 1833 Hill moved to Monticello, Georgia where he establish a law practice. Hill married Emily Reid of Monticello in 1836, she was 16 years old. They had four daughters and one son. Fifteen years later, in 1848 Hill moved to Madison, where he would maintain a residence for the rest of his life. Political career U.S. House of Representatives 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 (without his solicitation) 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.