Compiled by Russell Bastedo
State Curator
1998

Governor Isaac Hill 1836-1839. Hill (1788-1851) was born at Cambridge (MA). At age fourteen (1802) Hill was apprenticed to Joseph Cushing, owner and publisher of the Amherst (NH) Cabinet newspaper, to learn the newspaper trade. In 1809 Hill moved to Concord (NH), where he purchased the American Patriot newspaper. Hill renamed the newspaper the New Hampshire Patriot, and made it for twenty years the dominant state Jefferson anti-Federalist organ. He sold the newspaper in 1829.

At Concord Hill was drawn into state politics. He was elected Clerk of the House (1819, 1825); he served as a State Senator (1820-1823, 1827-1828).

Hill was a strong Jackson Democrat, and he served as a member of the Jackson Kitchen Cabinet in the 1828 presidential campaign and after. Jackson named Hill Second Comp-troller of the National Treasury early in his presidency, and Hill served during 1829 --1830 without Senate confirmation. When the Senate refused to confirm Hill because of his politics, the State of New Hampshire's Democrats elected Hill to the U. S. Senate, in the 1830 senatorial election. Hill went to Washington in 1831; he resigned in 1835, to campaign for the gubernatorial spot in New Hampshire. Hill governed for three successive terms (1836-1839). He then served in the Sub-Treasury at Boston (1840-1841), and turned his attention to running The Farmer's Monthly Visitor, a journal he had owned since 1835. He ran this newspaper until his death.

Location: State House, Second Floor, Corridor, West Face, Beginning at Room 208
Portrait by U.D. Tenney, 1874, from various engravings and daguerreotypes (early photographs); Presented by descendants (1874)