Background
Guill was born in Smyrna in Rutherford County in central Tennessee.
United States representative politician
Guill was born in Smyrna in Rutherford County in central Tennessee.
He graduated in 1933 from West Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University in Canyon, Texas, then known as West Texas State College.
Guill worked as an educator before becoming a business executive, and a real estate agent. From 1942 to 1945 during World World War II, he served in the United States Navy. Guill served the remaining term from May 6, 1950 to January 3, 1951.
In the November 1950 general election, he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to a full term in the Eighty-second Congress, losing to the Democratic candidate.
Guill was a delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention, which met in Chicago to nominate the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket. From 1953 to 1955, Guill served as the executive assistant in Washington, District of Columbia, to Arthur Summerfield, the United States Postmaster General.
Guill died on January 15, 1994, in Pampa, Texas, and is interred there at Fairview Cemetery. The next Republican to hold the Panhandle United States. House seat was Bob Price, also from Pampa.
He was elected to four terms beginning in 1966.
From 1955 to 1959, he was a member of the United States Federal Maritime Board in the United States Department of Commerce.