A Republican, he was appointed as a municipal judge in 1887 by Governor of Vermont Ebenezer J. Ormsbee, and subsequently reappointed by each governor until 1901.
In 1887, President Grover Cleveland proposed to return Confederate flags captured by Union troops during the Civil War.
Ebenezer J. Ormsbee (1834–1924), teacher, lawyer, U.S. politician of the Republican Party, American Civil War veteran
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Hill was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1913).
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He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Sixty-first Congress).
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He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1912 for reelection to the Sixty-third Congress.
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Hill was elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death in Norwalk, Connecticut, September 27, 1917.
Later, he moved to Orwell, Vermont, where he engaged in business as a dry-goods merchant.
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In 1850, Penniman defeated incumbent Democrat Alexander W. Buel to be elected as a Whig from Michigan's 1st congressional district to the Thirty-second Congress, serving from March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1853.
Shields died on April 21, 1846(age 67 years, 120 days near La Grange, Texas.
Francis E. Ormsbee, Jr. (1892–1936), American naval aviator in the U.S. Navy during World War I, received the Medal of Honor for bravery
Almost all prominent Vermonters who had served in the Civil War were members of the Society, including U.S. Senator Redfield Proctor, Interstate Commerce Commission member Wheelock G. Veazey, and Governors Peter T. Washburn, Roswell Farnham, John L. Barstow, Samuel E. Pingree, Ebenezer J. Ormsbee, Urban A. Woodbury, Josiah Grout, and Charles J. Bell.