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==Personal Life Impacts Campaign== |
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==Campaign for Governor== |
==Campaign for Governor== |
Revision as of 13:41, 24 April 2011
Rick Hill | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana's At-large district | |
In office 1997 – 2001 | |
Preceded by | Pat Williams |
Succeeded by | Dennis Rehberg |
Personal details | |
Political party | Republican |
Richard "Rick" Hill (born December 30, 1946) is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Montana.
Hill was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. In 1968, he graduated from Saint Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Hill received his Juris Doctor degree in 2005 from the Concord Law School in Los Angeles, California.
In 1993 Governor Marc Racicot asked Hill to act as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Montana State Fund, where he worked in a volunteer, unpaid capacity for three years.
Hill was elected to Congress in 1996, defeating Bill Yellowtail, and represented Montana's At-large congressional district from January 3, 1997 until January 3, 2001. Hill retired from Congress in 2000 due to deteriorating eyesight, which has since recovered.
His most notable accomplishment in the Congress was as the driving force behind Montana obtaining the Otter Creek coal tracts as part of the New World Mine agreement. He opposed the reintroduction of Grizzly bears in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, opposed the Clinton Administration's American Heritage Rivers proposal regarding the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, and opposed the Interior Columbia Basin Forest Management Plan that sought to reduce resource development in Montana. Hill also worked to improve citizen involvement and recreational access to Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, including the creation of a citizens advisory committee for the reconstruction of the Going-to-the-Sun Road and snowmobile use in Yellowstone Park. Hill secured the first funding for a bison Brucellosis vaccine and he provided key leadership in accomplishing the Gallatin Exchange.
Personal Life Impacts Campaign
Rick married his second wife Betti in 1983; they have three grown boys from Hill's first marriage.
Campaign for Governor
Hill is a candidate for Governor of Montana in 2012.[1]
References
- ^ "Former GOP U.S. Rep. Rick Hill to run for Montana governor". Missoulian. 2010-11-06.
External links
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress