Mark Langdon Hill (June 30, 1772 – November 26, 1842) was

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from

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and from

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. He was born in

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(then a part of the

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) on June 30, 1772. He attended the public schools, then became a merchant and shipbuilder in Phippsburg. He was an overseer and trustee of

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. He is the nephew of John Langdon. New Hampshire governor, Senator and patriot. Hill was elected a member of the

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, 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

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in 1816.American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
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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

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, 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

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

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in 1824. Hill died in Phippsburg on November 26, 1842. His interment was in the churchyard of the Congregational Church in Phippsburg Center.

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