Chester D. Hubbard

Chester D. Hubbard

Chester Dorman Hubbard (born November 25, 1814 in Hamden , Connecticut , † August 23, 1891 in Wheeling , West Virginia ) was an American politician . From 1865 to 1869 he represented the first constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Hubbard and his parents came to Wheeling in 1819, which was then part of Virginia . He later attended Wesleyan University in Middletown (Connecticut) until 1840 . In the following years he worked in banking as well as in iron and wood processing. At the same time he began a political career. Between 1852 and 1853 he was a member of the Virginia House of Representatives .

In the spring of 1861, Hubbard was a delegate at the Congress that decided Virginia's exit from the Union. Hubbard, like many of his colleagues from what would later become West Virginia, opposed these plans. This group was in the minority, however, and Virginia broke away from the Union to join the Confederate States soon after . That same year, 1861, Hubbard was a delegate to a conference in Wheeling where the supporters of the Union met and prepared for the secession of West Virginia from Virginia. After the founding of the state of West Virginia, Hubbard was elected to its Senate in 1863 . He was a member of the Republican Party and in 1864 and 1880 a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions , at which Abraham Lincoln and James A. Garfield were nominated as the party's presidential candidates.

In 1864, Hubbard was elected a Unionist in the First District of West Virginia to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Jacob B. Blair on March 4, 1865 . Two years later he was confirmed as a regular candidate for the Republican Party. This allowed him to complete two legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1869 , which were determined by the consequences of the civil war . During this time, the 13th and 14th amendments to the constitution were discussed and passed, which abolished slavery and extended civil rights to include African-Americans . In addition, there were impeachment proceedings against US President Andrew Johnson , which was approved in the House of Representatives, but failed in one vote in the US Senate . From 1867, Hubbard was chairman of the Home Office's Expenditure Control Committee .

After his tenure in Congress was over, Hubbard returned to his former private business. He died in Wheeling in August 1891 and was buried there. His son William later also represented the state of West Virginia as a congressman.

Web links

• Chester D. Hubbard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Chester D. Hubbard in the database of Find a Grave (English)