Louis W. Hill, Jr. was born in St. Paul on May 19, 1902, the son of the president of the Great Northern Railway and the grandson of its founder, James J. Hill. He was educated at the St. Paul Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Yale University. Prior to his election to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1936, he worked for the Great Northern Railway (1927-29) and for the First National Bank of St. Paul (1930-34). He became vice president of the Arthur Iron Mining Company (St. Paul) in 1934, serving in that capacity for the remainder of his career, including the years he served in the legislature. Hill represented the fortieth district continuously until his 1952 defeat. Hill ran again in 1954, but was again defeated.
Subjects include health and welfare, relief, conservation, taxation, political campaigns, reapportionment, Council of State Governments, and the Interstate Cooperation Commission.
A print version of this finding aid is available in the repository; filed in ALPHA notebooks under the heading: Hill, Louis W.
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Accession number: 14,066
Processed by: Bonnie B. Palmquist, August 1991
PALS ID number: 09-00022267
The files include correspondence, financial information, lists of campaign workers and contributors, a list of Grand Avenue stores and other businesses (1938), statistical data and information on candidates and issues. Files for some years are more extensive than those for others.
Includes information on contributors and candidates.
Correspondence with constituents and colleagues, reports and miscellaneous material.
Correspondence and reports relating to a joint Twin Cities airport.
Correspondence and salary grids relating to Civil Service employees.
Correspondence relating to the salaries of Civil Service employees.
Correspondence and pamphlets relating to the Communist Party and movement. Includes a few form letters signed by Meridel LeSueur.
The first folder contains correspondence received by Hill while he was on the Fish and Game Committee. The "Pheasant Bill" folder (1953-1955) contains correspondence, reports, and legislative bills relating to a controlled shooting pheasant preserve.
Includes correspondence and legislative bills.
Correspondence, reports, and conference information relating to an organization created for interstate cooperation. A commission on Interstate Cooperation (see separate files) was established in each state and represented on the council. The Council held conferences on taxation, crime, social security, relief, and national defense. Frank Bane was an important correspondent.
Correspondence with Melvin Maas and Hill's detailed memorandum (Nov. 15, 1938) on the transfer of the bridge to the state of Minnesota and the necessary repairs to, or replacement of, the bridge.
Includes correspondence and memoranda.
Hill was a member of both committees; includes his correspondence.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and programs of the Minnesota commission to the Council of State Governments. Includes correspondence of Frank Bane.
Correspondence with various unions and other organizations.
Correspondence and reports of organizations, includes some tuberculosis material.
Correspondence, pamphlets, reports, and newspaper clippings relating mainly to relief and old age pensions.
Minutes, correspondence, background material, maps, population figures, and legislative bills relating to the reapportionment of electoral districts.
Articles about forestry and Tri-State Forestry Conference resolutions (1938).
Correspondence and memoranda relating to psychiatric rehabilitation for offenders.
Correspondence and legislative bills relating to interest charged for small loans, also known as the "Loan Shark" bill.
Legislative bills #1-6, 11.
Background material relating to the proposed seaway.
Articles of incorporation and bylaws.
Correspondence, reports, and legislative bills relating to retirement.
Correspondence and reports relating to all kinds of tax matters.
Correspondence, minutes, reports, and background material relating to the prevention of tuberculosis and care of tuberculosis patients. The incidence of tuberculosis among the Indian population is examined.
Handbooks for patients and employees.