John Wesley Hill

John Wesley Hill (May 8, 1863 – October 12, 1936) was an American Methodist minister, political activist, author, and the chancellor of Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee, from 1916 to 1936.

Hill attended Ohio Northern University and then took classes at the Methodist Boston Theological Seminary.

Around 1905 he moved to the Janes United Methodist Church in Brooklyn, and then to the Metropolitan Temple at 7th Avenue and West 13th Street in New York City.

In 1927 he touted the campaign of Illinois governor Frank Orren Lowden for the Republican nomination for president.

Hill died on October 12, 1936, at the Commodore Hotel in Manhattan, New York City.