Georgia   Biographies  Ben Hill County

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BENJAMIN HARVEY HILL
Benjamin Harvey Hill was born in Jasper county, Georgia,
Sep 14, 1823.  When eighteen years of age he entered the
State University, graduating there with high honors in
1844.  He chose the legal profession, was admitted to its
practice at La Grange in 1847, and rapidly rose to
eminence in his profession.  He was elected Union member
of the Legislature from Troup county in 1851.  In 1860 he
was elected Union State Senator.

In 1861 he was a member of the Secession Convention of
Georgia, and an advocate of the Union until the passage
of the resolution declaring that the State ought to
seceded, when he cast his vote and his fortunes with
those who opposed coercion as the only means of resisting
subjugation.  February 04, 1861, he was a member of the
Provisional Confederate Congress, which met at
Montgomery, Alabama, and until the close of the War
Between the States he as a Conferate Senator.  Mr. Hill
was arrested at his home in La Grange, Georgia, May 1865.
He was confined in Fort Lafayette until July when he was
released on parole.

In 1907, Ben Hill County, Georgia, was named to honor
this great Congressional orator and Statesman of the
South.

Ref:  Headley, P. C., PUBLIC MEN OF TODAY, 1882, S. S.
Scranton & Co., Hartford, MA, pp. 177-179.

                                  BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA

Laid out November 06, 1906, Ben Hill County, Georgia,
received land from Irwin and Wilcox Counties.   It was
named to honor Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill.

Fitzgerald is the County Seat, it was established in 1896
by P. H. Fitzgerald as a colony for Union Civil War
veterans.  

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