Professorial Politician

Political salvos echo through the granite hills of New Hampshire as the November national election approaches. In the forefront of this hard-fought campaign, of Republican vs. Democrat, is a well-known member of the Dartmouth faculty, Prof. Herbert W. Hill, M.A. '41, chairman of the College's History Department.

Professor Hill is waging 'a valiant fight to unseat New Hampshire's senior U.S. Senator Styles Bridges, M.A. '35, and to gain the Senate seat for himself and for the Democratic Party. On September 13 he moved one step nearer his goal when he won the Democratic Party's nomination in the state primary. Bridges is trying for his sixth term.

Professor Hill, however, is not a neophyte in the game of politics. He was chairman of the Grafton County Democratic Committee from 1940 to 1946 and chairman of the State Democratic Committee from 1946 until 1948. In 1948 he was his party's nominee for governor and was defeated by only a narrow margin.

He has served on a number of state committees and commissions and is presently a member of the State Fish and Game Commission. Locally he serves as special justice of the Hanover Municipal Court.

On the national side of the ledger he is a member of the Board of Governors of the Atlantic Union and from 1951 to 1953 he served in the State Department as adviser to the Assistant Secretary for European Affairs.

A New England Yankee from Andover, Mass., he was educated at Phillips Academy and Harvard, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1924 and his master's degree in 1926. In 1941 he received an honorary degree from the College.

Professor Hill joined the faculty in 1928 as an instructor. Appointed full professor in 1941, he served as chairman of the History Department from 1947 to 1953, as chairman of the International Relations staff from 1955 to 1959, and now is again chairman of the History Department. He has specialized in the history of U. S. foreign relations and in New England history. He has for some years been Director of the Hanover Holiday and in this role is widely known to the alumni.

Prof. Herbert W. Hill