Rees Hill (August 15, 1776 – November 24, 1852) was a U.S. army colonel[1] in the War of 1812 and a politician who served as a Republican and Democratic-Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Greene County from 1810 to 1813 and from 1814 to 1820,[2] including as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1816 and 1819.
[4] On July 30, 1813, his detachment received orders to join the northwestern army and served in Ohio and Michigan.
[8] Rees Hill (along with Thomas Sargeant of Harrisburg, Cromwell Pearce of Chester County, and Samuel McKean of Bradford County) was appointed as an aide de camp to Governor William Findlay, the commander in chief of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
[9] On March 3, 1819, Congress and President James Monroe approved an act to reimburse Hill for money he had spent for expenses of his troops during the War of 1812.
[5] After his political career ended, Hill returned to Virginia and managed the estates of his father and Uncles.