Homefacts City Report. Hinsdale is located in Cook County, IL. The population is 16,594. There are 6 public schools in Hinsdale with an average Homefacts rating of A+. The total crime rate for Hinsdale is very low, and there are 1 registered sex offenders residing in the city.
Governor William Blount served from 1790 to 1796, when Tennessee was known as the Southwest Territory. He was replaced by John Sevier, the state's first governor.
Ben Tillman (1847-1918), an up-and-coming Democrat in 1896, had been elected to the U.S. Senate from South Carolina in 1894.He had previously served as governor of South Carolina from 1890-1894, a term in which he won a reputation as one of the early Southern demagogues.xcerpts from a front-page report in the People's Advocate, Columbiana, Alabama, 27 February, 1896. When Senator Ben Tillman, of South Carolina, got the floor in the senate to speak on the free coinage substitute, he spoke to a packed floor and galleries and received the undivided attention of his hearers.