Sydney W. Hill Explained

Sydney W. Hill
State House:Oklahoma
District:Roger Mills County
Term Start:1914
Term End:1916
Death Date:November 25, 1958
Party:Socialist (Until 1930)
Democratic (After 1930)
Resting Place:Silent Home Cemetery
Roll, Oklahoma

Sydney W. Hill was an American politician who served as a Socialist member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives representing Roger Mills County between 1914 and 1916. He was one of the first third party candidates elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives alongside fellow Socialist Party Representatives David C. Kirkpatrick, N. D. Pritchett, Charles Henry Ingham, and Thomas Henry McLemore.[1]

He later ran for his former seat in the 1930 and 1940 elections as a Democrat. He later died on November 25, 1958, and was buried at Silent Home Cemetery in Roll, Oklahoma.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Humphreys . George G. . A Century to Remember: A Historical Perspective on the Oklahoma House of Representatives . okhouse.gov . . 18 December 2022.
  2. Creel . Von Russell . Oklahoma Socialism . The Chronicles of Oklahoma . Fall 1992 . 70 . 3 . 296 . 17 February 2023.