Background
Hill, Mark Langdon was born on June 30, 1772 in Biddeford, Massachusetts (now Maine). Son of Jeremiah and Mary (Langdon) Storer Hill.
Hill, Mark Langdon was born on June 30, 1772 in Biddeford, Massachusetts (now Maine). Son of Jeremiah and Mary (Langdon) Storer Hill.
He attended the public schools, then became a merchant and shipbuilder in Phippsburg.
He was an overseer and trustee of Bowdoin College. He is the nephew of John Langdon. New Hampshire governor, Senator and patriot.
He served as judge of the court of common pleas in 1810.
He was elected as a Democratic-Republican from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 4, 1821). Hill and John Holmes were the two of the seven representatives from the district of Maine willing to vote for the Missouri compromise, 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 Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress from Maine after the state was admitted to the Union (March 4, 1821 – March 4, 1823).
He was postmaster of Phippsburg 1819-1824.
He was appointed as a collector of customs at Bath in 1824. Hill died in Phippsburg on November 26, 1842.
Member Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1797-1808, 10, 13, 14, Massachusetts Senate, 1804, 15-17. Member United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts, 16th Congress, 1819-1821, from Maine, 17th Congress, 1821-1823.
Married Mary McCobb, February 14, 1797 (deceased. Married second, Abigail Sewall, 1821.