David Hubbard

David Hubbard (* 1792 near Old Liberty (now Bedford ), Bedford County , Virginia ; † January 20, 1874 in Pointe Coupee Parish , Louisiana ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ). He was a cousin of Samuel Houston .

Career

David Hubbard attended county schools and an academy. During the British-American War , he entered the US Army and served in the Quartermaster Corps , where he held the rank of major . Then he moved to Huntsville ( Alabama ), where he worked as a carpenter. Hubbard studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1820, and then began practicing in Huntsville. Then he moved to Florence , where he worked as a solicitor between 1823 and 1826 . He then moved to Moulton in 1827 , where he worked as a dealer.

Hubbard also had a political career. He served in the Alabama Senate in 1827 and 1828 . Then he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama between 1828 and 1835 . During this time he moved to Courtland in 1829 and went on to buy and sell Chickasawland . He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1831, 1842, 1843, 1845, and 1853 . Hubbard was elected to the 26th US Congress . In his candidacy in 1840 for the subsequent 27th US Congress , however, he suffered a defeat. He served in the US House of Representatives from March 4, 1839 to March 3, 1841. Then he went back to his activity as a lawyer. Hubbard ran successfully for a seat in the 31st US Congress in 1848 , but missed his re-election to the 32nd US Congress . He served in the US House of Representatives from March 4, 1849 to March 3, 1851. Then he took as a delegate at the 1859 Southern Commercial Congress in Savannah ( Georgia part). The following year he was presidential elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket. Hubbard moved to the American Civil War to Spring Hill ( Tennessee ). He died in 1874 in his son's house in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana and was buried in the Trinity Episcopal Churchyard in Rosedale, Louisiana.

Web links

• David Hubbard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• David Hubbard in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Political Graveyard
• Cemetery Memorial by La-Cemeteries