Hiram Walker Hill

• American

Hiram Warner Hill was a prominent local lawyer and landowner whose family had lived in Meriwether County, Georgia, for several generations. His maternal grandfather, Hiram Warner, on whose plantation he grew up and in whose steps he followed, was a Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. Hill served his profession, his state, and his community in many capacities. He was a charter member of the Georgia Bar Association and served as its president from 1900 to 1901. From 1886 to 1894 he served in the Georgia House of Representatives and from 1899 to 1902 he was Mayor of Greenville. During his years in Greenville, Hill also served as president of a local bank, Master of the Masonic Lodge, Chairman of the Democratic Committee of the County, a member of the County Board of Education, Trustee of the Greenville Public School, Chairman of the Board of Stewards of the Methodist Church, and Superintendent of the Sunday School. In 1911 he was appointed to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, a position he held until his death. - NRHP, 1977

Lineage

• Father Alexander Franklin Hill Sr
• Mother Mary Jane Warner Hill

• Brother: Burwell O Hill