Isaac Hill

For the New Zealand settler, see Isaac Hill (social reformer).

Isaac Hill (April 6, 1788 – 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.

Isaac Hill
United States Senator from New Hampshire
In office March 4, 1831 – May 30, 1836
Preceded by	Levi Woodbury
Succeeded by	John Page
16th Governor of New Hampshire
In office June 2, 1836 – June 5, 1839
Preceded by	William Badger
Succeeded by	John Page
Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
In office 1826
Member of the New Hampshire Senate
In office 1820–1823 1827–1828
Personal details
Born	April 6, 1788 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died	March 22, 1851(1851-03-22) (aged 62) Washington, D.C.
Political party	Democratic-Republican Democratic
Occupation	Newspaper editor, politician
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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 was 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. Hill supported John C. Calhoun during the 1844 presidential election.

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., and was buried at Blossom Hill Cemetery in Concord, New Hampshire. The town of Hill, New Hampshire, is named after him.

See also

• List of governors of New Hampshire
• List of United States senators from New Hampshire

Bibliography

• Ashworth, John (1983). 'Agrarians' and 'Aristocrats': Party Political Ideology in the United States, 1837-1846. Cambridge University Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-5213-3567-6.
• Bradley, Cyrus Parker (1835). Biography of Isaac Hill (PDF). John F. Brown.
• Capace, Nancy (2001). Encyclopedia of New Hampshire. Somerset Publishers. ISBN 978-0-4030-9601-5.
• Heffernan, Nancy Coffey; Stecker, Ann Page (2004). New Hampshire: Crosscurrents in its Development. p. 123. ISBN 9781584653943.
• Corps, Terry (2009). The A to Z of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7016-1.
• Cutter, Benjamin; Cutter, William Richard (1880). History of the Town of Arlington, Massachusetts. p. 260.
• Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1890). History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Vol. 3.
• Marquis, James (1938). The life of Andrew Jackson, complete in one volume. Indianapolis, New York, The Bobbs-Merrill company.
• Polk, James Knox (1983). Correspondence of James K. Polk: 1842-1843. Univ. of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-0-8265-1211-6.
• Schlesinger, Arthur M. (1953) [1945]. The Age of Jackson. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-3167-7343-0.
• Dumas Malone, ed. (1932). Dictionary of American biography. Vol. IX. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• Dumas Malone, ed. (1932). Dictionary of American biography. Vol. XIII. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• History of Bedford, New Hampshire. Rumford Printing Company. 1903.
• Spencer, Thomas E. (1998). Where They're Buried. Baltimore, Md. : Clearfield Co. ISBN 9780806348230.
• Webster, Daniel (1986). The Papers of Daniel Webster: 1798-1824. Dartmouth College. ISBN 9780874513233.
• Edwards, B. B.; Cogswell, W., eds. (November 1840). "History of Newspapers in New Hampshire". The Quarterly Register and Journal of the American Education Society. 12–13. American Education Society.

External links

• United States Congress. "Isaac Hill (id: H000593)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Cyrus Parker Bradley, Biography of Isaac Hill, of New-Hampshire, 1835
• Isaac Hill at Find a Grave. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
• "Isaac Hill". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol. 3. Retrieved May 29, 2020.