John Hill (10 June 1821 – 24 July 1884) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NJ 4) from 4 March 1867 to 3 March 1873 (succeeding Andrew J. Rogers and preceding Robert Hamilton) and from NJ-5 from 4 March 1881 to 3 March 1883 (succeeding Charles H. Voorhis and preceding William Walter Phelps).
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John Hill was born in Catskill, New York in 1821, and he moved to Boonton, New Jersey in 1845 and worked as a bookkeeper and paymaster before serving as Postmaster from 1849 to 1853, as a town committeeman from 1852 to 1856, a justice of the peace from 1856 to 1861, a Union Army recruiter during the American Civil War, in the General Assembly from 1861 to 1862 and in 1866, on the town committee from 1863 to 1867, in the US House of Representatives from 1867 to 1873, in the State Senate from 1875 to 1877, and in the House from 1881 to 1883. He died in 1884.