A ninth generation Arkansan, French Hill is the 22nd Member of Congress to represent central Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was elected on November 4, 2014, and began his first congressional term in the 114th Congress on January 3, 2015. He won reelection to serve in the 115th, 116th, and 117th sessions of Congress.
| I am pleased to announce that the Senate has passed my legislation, the Scipio Jones Post Office Portrait Act, which will honor one of Arkansas’s greatest heroes, and one of America’s best lawyers – Scipio Africanus Jones. Jones' skillful legal defense saved the lives of twelve Black sharecroppers, who were wrongfully convicted of murder, by an Arkansas state court in the aftermath of the 1919 Elaine Massacre. I introduced this legislation to authorize that a portrait of this brave hero will be displayed at the Scipio A. Jones U.S. Post Office Building on Main Street in Little Rock. I am grateful to historians Dr. Brian Mitchell University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and John Gill, for their research, which has assisted me with this legislation. Scipio Jones’ fight for civil rights, and equality, is an important part of Arkansas’s story. It is something for which we are deeply proud. His portrait will be a daily reminder to Arkansans of his great work for equality, and for civil rights. |
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