Robert whitehill biography

WHITEHILL, Robert, (uncle of James Whitehill, brother of John Whitehill), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Pequea, Lancaster County, Pa., July 21, 1738; attended the common schools; settled in Cumberland County; member of the State constitutional convention in July 1776 that approved the Declaration of.
Robert Whitehill (July 21, 1738 – April 8, 1813) was an American politician who was elected to five terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Photography by: Michael C. Wootton

Robert Blake Whitehill was born into a Quaker family in Mardela Springs, just outside Salisbury on Maryland’s Eastern Shore peninsula. The family home lay next to the pond that powered a colonial-era relic, the Barren Creek Mill. He grew up sailing the Chesapeake Bay, and one of her most beautiful tributaries, the Chester River.

After graduating from Westtown School Whitehill stayed in Pennsylvania to earn his B.A. in creative writing at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges. Later he trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. As with David Mamet, exhaustive studies of the best English language drama for the stage and screen transformed an aspiring actor into a passionate writer.

An early focus on feature screenwriting earned Whitehill film festival wins at the Hudson Valley Film Festival, and the Hamptons International Film Festival where he also received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship for his script U.X.O. (Unexploded Ordnance). His

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Robert Whitehill and the Struggle for Civil Rights

“Every man in Cumberland County is a rioter at heart,” lamented Governor John Penn the year he ordered his family’s land in Lower Manor subdivided and sold. The concurrence of his remark and his order to sell may have been mere chance, but young Penn in this instance established himself as seer and prophet. When he used the word “rioter” he spoke of the seething Scotch-Irish, who were virtually the only group then living in the County.

During their most turbulent period the Scotch-Irish on the frontier chose as their principal spokesman a member-of their own clan, the third patentee of Lowther Manor, Robert Whitehill.

Whitehill and his associates during the thirty-seven years in which he represented them earned more opprobrious names than “rioter.” Penn himself might later have used stronger language, for it was from Scotch-Irish insistence that the new State government in 1779 confiscated about 21 million acres from the Penn heirs, leaving only 500,000 or so in Proprietary Manors to the family. Because Lowther Manor had been c

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Robert Whitehill (poet)

American Hebrew poet (born 1947)

Samuel Robert Whitehill (Hebrew: רוברט וייטהיל־בשן; born 1947) is an American Hebrew poet and a translator.

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Robert Whitehill was born in 1947 in High Point, North Carolina, and grew up in Lubbock, Texas, where he attended Texas Tech University.^[1] Although he was raised with little Jewish identity, Whitehill was fascinated by Israel and Zionism. Starting at the age of 15, Whitehill studied Hebrew using self-help books and vinyl records, then found his first Hebrew conversational partner in a fellow Texas Tech student—an Israeli Arab. At age 21, Whitehill made his first trip to Israel, where he enrolled in a two-month intensive Hebrew course. Upon his return, Whitehill enrolled at University of Texas at Austin, where he received a Juris Doctor as well as a master's degree in English literature. He met his future wife, Susan Lilly, at the university, and married her in 1978.

During the 1970s, Whitehill wrote his first Hebrew poem, which was accepted by the now-defunct Hebrew periodical