GOVERNOR US BOSS SENATOR NY DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CAND 1890s AUTOGRAPH SIGNED!

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DAVID BENNETT HILL
(1843-1910)
DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK 1885-92,
U.S. DEMOCRATIC PARTY “BOSS” SENATOR 1892-1897
&
CANDIDATE FOR DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (1892)!
Hill became the upstate boss of the Democratic Party in New York. He served as a state legislator and, as Lieutenant Governor, succeeded to the governorship in 1885 upon Grover Cleveland's resignation to take his seat as President of the United States! As U.S. Senator, he fought the free-silver wing in his own party.
HERE'S A SIGNATURE CARD SIGNED BY HILL:
“David B. Hill”
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of the HONORABLE
GOVERNOR HILL
David Bennett Hill
(August 29, 1843 – October 20, 1910) was an American
politician
from
New York
who was the
29th Governor of New York
from 1885 to 1891.
Life
David B. Hill was born on August 29, 1843 in
Havana, New York
. He was
educated
locally,
studied law
, and began a practice in Elmira in 1864. In 1864 was he was named
Elmira's
City Attorney
. He was a
Democratic
member of the
New York State Assembly
(
Chemung County
) in
1871
and
1872
. Hill was elected an alderman of Elmira in 1880, served as Mayor of Elmira in 1882, and was President of the
New York State Bar Association
from 1886 to 1887. Hill was
Lieutenant Governor
from 1883 to 1885, elected in
1882
on the ticket with Governor
Grover Cleveland
. He was Governor from 1885 to 1891, succeeding to the office upon Cleveland's resignation and re-elected in
1885
and
1888
.
On May 15, 1885, Hill signed "a bill establishing a '
Forest Preserve
' of 715,000 acres that was to remain permanently 'as wild
forest
lands.'"
This tract soon became the
Adirondack Park
.
During his tenure as governor,
William Kemmler
was executed in the
electric chair
, the first inmate in the country ever to be put to death in this manner. On April 23, 1889, Hill vetoed a bill from the state legislature that would block the street construction at the
Polo Grounds
. He also vetoed two times (1888 and 1889) a ballot reform bill by the Republican legislature to stop the rife election fraud in New York.
He was a
U.S. Senator from New York
from 1892 to 1897. He was elected in
February 1891
, but took his seat only after the end of his term as governor in January 1892. He was also a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 1892, but lost to
Grover Cleveland
, who later won the
presidential election
. He was defeated by
Republican
Levi P. Morton
when, as a sitting U.S senator, he ran again for governor in
November 1894
. While Senator in 1893 and 1894 he blocked President Cleveland's two appointments to the
U.S. Supreme Court
:
William B. Hornblower
and
Wheeler H. Peckham
who had opposed Hill's political machine.
Hill died at Wolfert's Roost, his country home near
Albany
on October 20, 1910 from the effects of
Bright's Disease
and heart disease. He was buried in Montour Cemetery in
Mountour
Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Bass, Herbert J. David B. Hill and the Steal of the Senate, 1891. New York History 41 (July 1960): 299-311; Bass, Herbert J. I Am A Democrat: The Political Career of David Bennett Hill. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1961.
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