Knute Hill

Knute Hill (July 31, 1876 - December 3, 1963) was a U.S. Representative from Washington.

Born on a farm near Creston, Illinois, Hill moved to De Forest, Wisconsin, in 1877 and to Red Wing, Minnesota, in 1889.He attended the public schools, Red Wing (Minnesota) Seminary, and the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.He was graduated from the law department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1906.He was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced law in Milwaukee and Eau Claire, Wisconsin from 1908 to 1910.He moved to Prosser, Washington, in 1911 and taught in the public and high schools of Benton County, Washington from 1911 to 1922. Lecturer, State Grange from 1922 to 1932.He also engaged in agricultural pursuits.He served as member of the State house of representatives 1927-1933.

Hill was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1943).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress. Superintendent of the Uintah-Ouray Indian agency at Fort Duchesne, Utah, from August 16, 1943, until his resignation on March 31, 1944. Radio commentator in Spokane, Washington from 1944 to 1946.He was an unsuccessful Independent Progressive candidate for election in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress. Consulting appraiser and information clerk in the Bureau of Reclamation, Columbia Basin Project, Ephrata, Washington, from March 1949 until his retirement in 1951.He died in Desert Hot Springs, California, December 3, 1963.He was interred in Yakima Calvary Cemetery, Yakima, Washington.

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