Isaac Hill

{{Short description|American politician (1789–1851)}} {{for|the New Zealand settler|Isaac Hill (social reformer)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Isaac Hill | image = Isaac Hill, portrait.jpg | jr/sr1 = United States senator | state1 = New Hampshire | term_start1 = March 4, 1831 | term_end1 = May 30, 1836 | preceded1 = Levi Woodbury | succeeded1 = John Page | order2 = 16th Governor of New Hampshire | term_start2 = June 2, 1836 | term_end2 = June 5, 1839 | preceded2 = William Badger | succeeded2 = John Page | office3 = Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives | term3 = 1826 | office4 = Member of the New Hampshire Senate | term4 = 1820–1823<br>1827–1828 | birth_date = April 6, 1788 | birth_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts | death_date = {{Death date and age|1851|3|22|1788|4|6}} | death_place = Washington, D.C. | party = Democratic-Republican<br>Democratic | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Newspaper editor, politician | profession = | signature = Isaac Hill signature.jpg | website = | footnotes = }} '''Isaac Hill''' (April 6, 1788{{spaced ndash}}March 22, 1851) was an American politician, journalist, political commentator and newspaper editor who was a United States senator and the 16th governor of New Hampshire, serving two consecutive terms.

==Biography== Hill was born on April 6, 1788, in West Cambridge, Massachusetts, (now Belmont). Born into a relatively poor family, his parents were Isaac and Hannah (Russell). Their marriage brought nine children, with Isaac being the eldest of the siblings.

Hill, as a member of the Democratic Party, was a bitter political opponent of President John Quincy Adams, and supported the policies of President Andrew Jackson. A member of Jackson's informal "Kitchen Cabinet," Hill was the most avid proponent of the "spoils system" employed during Jackson's presidency.<ref>Claude G. Bowers, ''The Party Battles of the Jackson Period'', [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72299/pg72299-images.html p.156] (Houghton Mifflin Co. 1922) (retrieved Jun. 30, 2024)</ref> Hill supported John C. Calhoun during the 1844 presidential election.<ref>Schlesinger, 1953, p. 104</ref>

Hill was publisher of the ''New Hampshire Patriot''. Jacob Bailey Moore apprenticed under Hill and later married his sister Mary Adams Hill. The brothers-in-law had a difficult relationship due to their political differences, and Moore later worked for the competing ''New Hampshire Journal''. Hill's caustic newspaper editorials were the source of much political controversy among political parties and cost him a nomination to the New Hampshire Senate, but he later was nominated and elected twice, serving 1820–1823 and 1827–1828. He later was nominated for the United States Senate and was elected in 1831. He resigned from the Senate when he was elected Governor of New Hampshire, serving 1836–1839, and chose not to run for re-election.

In the latter part of his life, Hill became active in other ventures including railroads, real estate, banking and manufacturing enterprises and became moderately wealthy and accumulated a considerable estate. He was active in the promotion of various agricultural improvements. In his last years, Hill suffered constantly from asthma. He died on March 22, 1851, in Washington, D.C.,<ref>Webster, 1998, p. 219</ref><ref>Ashworth, 1983, p. 258</ref><ref>Ashworth & Coffey, 2004, p. 123</ref> and was buried at Blossom Hill Cemetery in Concord, New Hampshire.<ref>Spencer, 1998, pp. 134, 423</ref> The town of Hill, New Hampshire, is named after him.<ref>Capace, 2001, p. 448</ref>

==See also== {{portal|United States}} * List of governors of New Hampshire * List of United States senators from New Hampshire

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==Bibliography== * {{cite book |last=Ashworth |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jqg7pIezRMAC&pg=PA258 |title='Agrarians' and 'Aristocrats': Party Political Ideology in the United States, 1837-1846 |year=1983 |page=258|publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=978-0-5213-3567-6 |ref=ashworth1983}} * {{cite book |last=Bradley |first=Cyrus Parker |title=Biography of Isaac Hill |authorlink= |publisher=John F. Brown |year=1835 |url=https://sos.nh.gov/media/nlzjsgzh/biography-of-isaac-hill-of-nh-by-cyrus-bradley-parker-concord-1835.pdf |ref=bradley1835}} * {{cite book |last=Capace |first=Nancy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FyCVd_nCYl8C&pg=PA422 |title=Encyclopedia of New Hampshire|date=2001 |publisher=Somerset Publishers |isbn=978-0-4030-9601-5 |ref=capace2001}} * {{cite book |last1=Heffernan |first1=Nancy Coffey |first2=Ann Page |last2=Stecker |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IainON4omb8C&pg=PA123 |title=New Hampshire: Crosscurrents in its Development|year=2004|page=123|isbn=9781584653943 |ref=coffey2004 }} * {{cite book |last=Corps |first=Terry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=16n-KIgDKH4C&pg=PA157 |title=The A to Z of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny |year=2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7016-1 |ref=corps2009}} * {{cite book |last1=Cutter |first1=Benjamin |first2=William Richard |last2=Cutter |authorlink2=William Richard Cutter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F2YUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA260 |title=History of the Town of Arlington, Massachusetts |year=1880 |page= 260 |ref=cutter1880}} * {{cite book |last=Hurd |first=Duane Hamilton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZU6AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA694 |title=History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts |volume=3 |year=1890 |ref=hurd1890}} * {{cite book |last=Marquis |first=James |title=The life of Andrew Jackson, complete in one volume |authorlink= |publisher=Indianapolis, New York, The Bobbs-Merrill company |year=1938 |url=https://archive.org/details/lifeofandrewjack00jame/page/n7/mode/2up |ref=marquis1938}} * {{cite book |last=Polk |first=James Knox |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H6w3bYiExkAC&pg=PA355 |title=Correspondence of James K. Polk: 1842-1843 |year=1983 |publisher=Univ. of Tennessee Press |isbn=978-0-8265-1211-6 |ref=polk1983}} * {{cite book |last=Schlesinger |first=Arthur M. |date=1953 |orig-year=1945 |title=The Age of Jackson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3EZAAAAIAAJ |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |isbn=978-0-3167-7343-0 |author-link=Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. |ref=schlesinger1953 }} * {{cite book |last= |first= |title=Dictionary of American biography |volume=IX |editor=Dumas Malone |authorlink= |publisher=New York: Charles Scribner's Sons |year=1932 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer09ilamer/page/n5/mode/2up |ref=malone9}} * {{cite book |last= |first= |title=Dictionary of American biography |volume=XIII |editor=Dumas Malone |authorlink= |publisher=New York: Charles Scribner's Sons |year=1932 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer13amer/page/n5/mode/2up |ref=malone13}} * {{cite book |publisher=Rumford Printing Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wQ8zAQAAIAAJ |title=History of Bedford, New Hampshire |year=1903 |ref=rumford1903}} *{{cite book |last=Spencer |first=Thomas E. |title=Where They're Buried |publisher=Baltimore, Md. : Clearfield Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/wheretheyreburie00spen/page/n1/mode/2up |year=1998 |isbn=9780806348230 |ref=spencer1998}} * {{cite book |last= Webster |first=Daniel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=94J2AAAAMAAJ |title=The Papers of Daniel Webster: 1798-1824 |publisher= Dartmouth College|year=1986 |isbn=9780874513233 |ref=webster1998}} * {{cite journal |journal=The Quarterly Register and Journal of the American Education Society |volume=12-13 |editor1=Edwards, B. B. |editor2=Cogswell, W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F0EwAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA172 |title=History of Newspapers in New Hampshire |date=November 1840 |publisher=American Education Society |ref=aes1840}}

==External links== {{CongBio|H000593}} * Cyrus Parker Bradley, [https://archive.org/details/biographyisaach00bradgoog/page/n108  Biography of Isaac Hill, of New-Hampshire], 1835 *{{Find a Grave|8067048}}. Retrieved January 13, 2014. * {{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography|volume=3|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39076005094201&view=2up&seq=240 |title=Isaac Hill|accessdate=May 29, 2020}}

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