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George Richard Hill Jr. was an American educational administrator and served as the Sunday School general superintendent of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a position he held from 1949 to 1966. He previously served in the general superintendency of the Sunday School from 1934 to 1966. From 1926 to 1935, Hill was a member of the general board of the Church's Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association. He had began service as a member of the general board of the Deseret Sunday School Union in 1925. Hill was born on April 10, 1884, in Ogden, Utah Territory, and was raised on a farm in Springville, Utah. Hill held a BS degree from Brigham Young University, a BSA degree from the Utah State Agricultural College, and a PhD from Cornell University. After he graduated from Cornell in 1912, Hill became the director of the School of Agriculture at Utah State University. Hill was married to Elizabeth Odette McKay, the sister of Church president David O. McKay. Hill's oldest son George R. Hill III was a General Authority of the Church of Jesus Christ between 1987 and 1992.

Hill died on August 13, 1971, in Salt Lake City, Utah.