Philip Carteret Hill
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Philip Carteret Hill (Halifax August 13, 1821 – September 15, 1894 Tunbridge Wells) was a Nova Scotia politician. He was mayor of Halifax from 1861 to 1864 before entering provincial politics as a supporter of Canadian confederation in 1867 serving as Provincial Secretary in the Conservative cabinet of Hiram Blanchard but lost his seat in the fall 1867 election that defeated the government.
Hill returned to the legislature in 1870 by winning a by-election as a Liberal-Conservative. He again lost his seat in 1871 but returned in 1874 and served in the Liberal government of William Annand as provincial secretary. Feelings against confederation had abated and Hill was well placed to put forward a compromise position that enabled him to succeed Annand as premier in 1875. However, Hill took over the Liberal government at a time that the federal Liberals were in power under Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie and becoming increasingly unpopular in Nova Scotia. That, and the failure of the Annand and Hill governments to make progress on railway construction, led to the Liberal's defeat in the 1878 election after which Hill retired from politics. He moved to England in 1882 and published a series theological pamphlets.
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Preceded by William Annand |
Premier of Nova Scotia 1875-1878 |
Succeeded by Simon H. Holmes |
Premiers of Nova Scotia | ||
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Colonial: Uniacke | Young | Johnston | Young | Howe | Johnston | Tupper
Provincial: | Tupper | Blanchard | Annand | Hill | Holmes | Thompson | Pipes | Fielding | Murray | Armstrong | Rhodes | Harrington | Macdonald | MacMillan | Macdonald | Connolly | Hicks | Stanfield | Smith | Regan | Buchanan | Bacon | Cameron | Savage | MacLellan | Hamm | MacDonald |
Categories: 1821 births | 1894 deaths | Canadian Anglicans | Nova Scotia MLAs | Nova Scotia Liberal MLAs | Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative MLAs | Nova Scotia premiers | People from Halifax, Nova Scotia | Mayors of places in Nova Scotia | Pre-Confederation Nova Scotia people | Canadians of Ulster-Scottish descent