Preceded by Alfred Iverson, Sr. Party Republican Party Name Joshua Hill | Political party Republican Preceded by Nathaniel G. Foster Succeeded by John Brown Gordon | |
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Born January 10, 1812
Abbeville, South Carolina ( 1812-01-10 ) Role Member of the United States House of Representatives Died March 6, 1891, Madison, Georgia, United States Books A Northman South: Or, The Race Problem in America | ||
Joshua Hill (January 10, 1812 – March 6, 1891) was a United States Senator from the State of Georgia. He was born in South Carolina but later moved to Georgia and became a lawyer. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Georgia in 1857 as a member of the American Party (also called the Know-Nothing Party). He was reelected in 1859. He resigned on January 23, 1861 while the other members of the state's delegation simply withdrew shortly after the state convention passed an ordinance of secession in Georgia. Following the end of the war, he was elected to the United States Senate from Georgia as a Republican in 1867. However, he did not serve in the Senate until 1871 when Georgia was readmitted to the United States. He served in the Senate until the end of his term in 1873 and did not run for reelection. He resumed the practice of law and died in Madison, Georgia. During the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman, a friend of Hill, did not burn Madison, Georgia on his "March to the Sea".