John Hill (April 9, 1797 – April 24, 1861) was a U.S. Representative from

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. Born near Germanton, North Carolina, Hill completed preparatory studies and was graduated from the

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in 1816. He was a planter, also serving as clerk of court of

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, for thirty years. He served as member of the North Carolina House of Commons from 1819 to 1823, and in the North Carolina State Senate 1823–1825, 1830, and 1831. Hill was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1841). He was a reading clerk in the State Senate in 1850, and served as delegate to the State constitutional convention at

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, in 1861. Hill died in

, April 24, 1861, and was interred in Old Hill Burying Ground, near Germanton, North Carolina.

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