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.
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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.
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.
In 1887, President Grover Cleveland proposed to return Confederate flags captured by Union troops during the Civil War.
Shields died on April 21, 1846(age 67 years, 120 days near La Grange, Texas.
Ebenezer J. Ormsbee (1834–1924), teacher, lawyer, U.S. politician of the Republican Party, American Civil War veteran
The new plant and the new town for the workers and families were named Penniman, in honor of Russell Sylvanus Penniman, an American chemist who is credited with the invention of ammonia dynamite in 1885, a safer form than the nitroglycerin used with Alfred Nobel's original formulation.
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.