High-Ranking Aide To Bush Found Dead

Arthur J. Hill, a prominent Miami banker and one of the highest-ranking blacks in the Bush administration, was found dead in his hotel room here. He was 46.

Hill’s body was found Wednesday morning in his room at the Newark Airport Hilton after he failed to answer a wake-up call. He had come to New Jersey to attend a Republican Governor’s Association conference Tuesday, said Michael Krouse, director of sales.

In 1989, President Bush asked Hill to run the Government National Mortgage Association, known as Ginnie Mae. Two years later, Hill became the federal commissioner of housing, the No. 2 post at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.