Arthur J. Hill was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, one of four children of a single mother who worked as a beautician.

[2][4][1] He also served on the Miami-Dade Community College Foundation investment committee, on the board of directors of the United Way of Dade County, and was a Fellow of the British-American Project for the Successor Generation.

[4] During the 1988 United States presidential election, Hill was Florida chair of Black Republicans for Bush, served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention, and was chosen an Elector in the United States Electoral College.

Bush's victory, Hill was nominated to be president of Ginnie Mae and was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on March 6, 1990.

[3] Aged 46, Hill died of a heart attack in a hotel room in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1995 where he had been attending a dinner of the Republican Governors Association.