Henrietta McCormick Hill was the wife of Senator Lister Hill, the Democratic politician from Alabama who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1923 and the U.S. Senate in 1938, serving until his retirement in 1969. During that time, Hill embraced the role of political wife, as she recounts in her posthumous book, A Senator’s Wife Remembers: From the Great Depression to the Great Society (2012). The book is an expanded version of an earlier self-published memoir, The Family Skeleton (1958).
Hill married her husband in 1928, and they had two children. Her books report numerous social events in Washington and Alabama, and some of the famous people she interacted with include: Eleanor Roosevelt, Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Drew Pearson.
The Homes
2400 16th St. NW, Washington, DC (Envoy Apartments)
Also home to: Annulet Andrews Frances Parkinson Keyes
1584 21st St. NW, Washington, DC (The Fairfax Hotel)
2311 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC
2540 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC (Wardman Park Apartments)
Also home to: Clare Booth Luce Perle Mesta
Henrietta McCormick Hill
2400 16th St. NW
Located in Adams Morgan neighborhood, Northwest- West of Rock Creek
Henrietta McCormick Hill
1584 21st St. NW
Located in Dupont Circle neighborhood, Northwest- West of Rock Creek
Henrietta McCormick Hill
2311 Connecticut Ave. NW
Located in Sheridan/Kalorama neighborhood,
Henrietta McCormick Hill
2540 Massachusetts Ave NW
Located in Woodley Park neighborhood, Northwest- West of Rock Creek