About Bertha I. Hill
Lived 1892 – 1980 (aged 87–88). Bertha I. Hill was a politician.
Bertha I. Hill (1892 or 1893 – December 18, 1980) was a Republican politician from Nebraska who served as the 28th Nebraska State Treasurer from July 1958 to January 1959, completing the term of her late husband, Ralph W. Hill.
Hill was born in Oberlin, Kansas, and married Ralph W. Hill in 1916. They moved to Hebron, Nebraska, in 1927.
In 1944, Governor Dwight Griswold appointed Hill to the Board of Education of State Normal Schools, and reappointed her in 1945 for a full six-year term. She was named the president of the board from 1949 to 1951. Governor Victor E. Anderson appointed her to serve out the remaining months of his term, and she was sworn in on July 17, 1958. Upon her appointment, Hill became the first woman to hold an elected statewide office in state history.
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American politician (1892–1980)
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Bertha I. Hill was born in 1892.
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Bertha I. Hill died on 18 December 1980.
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Bertha I. Hill was a politician.
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