Member

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1965 Representative Republican
1966 Representative Republican
1967 Representative Republican
1968 Representative Republican
1969 Representative 100 Republican
1970 Representative 100 Republican
1971 Representative 100 Republican
1972 Representative 100 Republican
1973 Representative 100 Republican
1974 Representative 100 Republican
1975 Representative 100 Republican
1976 Representative 100 Republican
Counties Lancaster

Biography

12/04/1911 - 03/08/1984


HILL, Sherman L., a Representative from Lancaster County; born in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Pa., December 4, 1911; graduated, Penn Manor High School; attended, Millersville State Teachers College (now Millersville University of Pennsylvania); attended, Temple University; Civilian Defense, Auxiliary Police (World War II); partner, restaurant and confectionary business (1933-1954); executive director, Boys’ Club of Lancaster (1944-1968); director of community relations, Boys’ Club of Lancaster (1968-1970); appointed, Pennsylvania Governor’s Advisory Commission for Children and Youth (1963-1968); appointed, National Emergency Commission on Crime and Delinquency (1967); appointed, Pennsylvania State Board of Public Welfare; division chair, Lancaster County Republican Finance Committee; co-organizer, Young Republicans of Lancaster County; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1965 term; reelected to serve 4 more consecutive terms; appointed, Special Committee to Review Juvenile Unrest and Gang Wars in the Philadelphia Area (1973-1974); not a candidate for reelection to the House (1976); chair, Lancaster County Republican Committee (1976-1977); gubernatorial appointee, State Ethics Commission (1983-1984); died, March 8, 1984 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Millersville Mennonite Cemetery, Millersville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.


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