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Senate Years of Service: 1831-1836 Party: Jacksonian; Democrat
HILL, Isaac, a Senator from New Hampshire; born in West Cambridge, near Arlington, Mass.,
on April 6, 1789; attended the common schools; moved with his parents to Ashburnham, Mass., in
1798; apprenticed to a printer in Amherst, N.H.; moved to Concord in 1809; purchased and for
twenty years edited the New Hampshire Patriot; member, State senate 1820-1823, 1827-1828;
member, State house of representatives 1826; Second Comptroller of the United States Treasury
1829-1830; elected as a Jacksonian (later Democrat) to the United States Senate and served from
March 4, 1831, to May 30, 1836, when he resigned; Governor of New Hampshire 1836-1839;
United States subtreasurer at Boston 1840-1841; returned to newspaper publishing 1840-1847; died
in Washington, D.C., March 22, 1851; interment in Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, N.H.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
Bradley, Cyrus. Biography of Isaac Hill. Concord: J.F. Brown, 1935; Cole, Donald.
Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire, 1800-1851. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1970.
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