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He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when he was ten, and earned advanced degrees from Harvard University (Department of Administration and Management in 1958) and Princeton (Doctor of Philosophy in 1963).
Harvard University; Princeton University.
He taught history at the University of Illinois at Urbana. Hill was the author of English Monasteries and Their Patrons in the Twelfth Century (1968), Church and State in the Middle Ages (1970), and articles in Analecta Cisterciensia, New Catholic Encyclopedia, The American Benedictine Review and The Dictionary of the Middle Ages. He was one of the contributing editors of The Encyclopedia of World History (2001).
Among other publications Hill have made contributions to are A History of World Societies and A History of Western Society, both published in several editions.
Hill was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and served as vice president of the American Catholic Historical Association (1995–1996). A Benedictine monk of Saint Anselm"s Abbey in Washington, District of Columbia, he also taught at Saint Anselm"s Abbey School and was a visiting professor at Georgetown University.
2008 When District 31 Democratic Senator John C. Revens, Jr. retired and left the seat open, Bennett ran in the September 9, 2008 Democratic Primary, but lost by 10 votes to Erin Lynch. Lynch won the November 4, 2008 General election against Republican nominee Thomas Madden, who had run for the seat in 2006. 2010 Bennett challenged District 20 incumbent Representative Alfred A. Gemma in the September 14, 2010 Democratic Primary, winning with 902 votes (629%) and won the four-way November 2, 2010 General election with 2,660 votes (577%) against Republican nominee Henri Koldyk and Moderate candidate William Pierce.
