William S. Hill

William Silas Hill (January 20, 1886 – August 28, 1972) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado for nine terms.

He studied at the Colorado State College of Agriculture, was a farmer, Secretary of the Colorado State Farm Bureau, and while a Congressman worked on agricultural issues.

He was superintendent of Cache la Poudre Consolidated School of Larimer County, Colorado from 1919 to 1922.

He served as chairman of the Select Committee on Small Business (83rd Congress)[2] and was particularly focus on improving the fate of small metal mines in the western United States.

He supported agricultural issues and served on agriculture-related subcommittees, including the end of the quota system on livestock slaughter, studying the Federal crop‐insurance program, and for a prohibition of controls on commodity margins.