Ebenezer J. Hill

Ebenezer J. Hill (August 4, 1845 - September 27, 1917) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.

Born in Redding, Connecticut, Hill attended the public schools, Center Academy, and Yale College in 1865 and 1866. During the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army in 1863 and served until the close of the war.He engaged in business and banking in Norwalk. Burgess of Norwalk.He served as chairman of the board of school visitors.He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884.He served as member of the State senate in 1886 and 1887.He served one term on the Republican State central committee.

Hill was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1913).He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Sixty-first Congress).He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1912 for reelection to the Sixty-third Congress.

Hill was elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death in Norwalk, Connecticut, September 27, 1917.He was interred in Riverside Cemetery.

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