{{Short description|American politician (1772–1842)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Mark Langdon Hill | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | office = Member of the<br>U.S. House of Representatives | constituency = Massachusetts 16th<br>(1819–1821)<br>Maine 3rd (1821–1823) | term_start = March 4, 1819 | term_end = March 3, 1823 | predecessor = Benjamin Orr | successor = Ebenezer Herrick | birth_date = {{birth date|1772|6|30}} | birth_place = Biddeford, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America | death_date = {{death date and age|1842|11|26|1772|6|30}} | death_place = Phippsburg, Maine, U.S. | spouse = | party = Democratic-Republican | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Merchant | profession = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Mark Langdon Hill''' (June 30, 1772 – November 26, 1842) was United States Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine. He was born in Biddeford (then a part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay) on June 30, 1772. He attended the public schools, then became a merchant and shipbuilder in Phippsburg. He was an overseer and trustee of Bowdoin College. He is the nephew of John Langdon. New Hampshire governor, Senator and patriot.
Hill was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and served in the Massachusetts State Senate. He served as judge of the court of common pleas in 1810. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1816.<ref>[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlisth American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]</ref> He was elected as a Democratic-Republican from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821). Hill and John Holmes were 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.
Hill was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress from Maine after the state was admitted to the Union (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823). He was postmaster of Phippsburg 1819-1824. He was appointed as a collector of customs at Bath in 1824. Hill died in Phippsburg on November 26, 1842. His interment was in the churchyard of the Congregational Church in Phippsburg Center.
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{CongBio|H000602}} * {{cite book | last = Rolde | first = Neil | title = Maine: A Narrative History | publisher = Harpswell Press | year = 1990 | location = Gardiner, Me | pages = 143–144 | isbn = 0-88448-069-0 }}
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