Henry Huber

Henry Allen Huber (born November 6, 1869 in Evergreen , Allegheny County , Pennsylvania , †  January 31, 1933 in Madison , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1933 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Wisconsin.

Career

At the age of ten, Henry Huber came to Pleasant Springs , Wisconsin with his parents . After studying law at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his admission as a lawyer in 1892, he began to work in Stoughton in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1905 and 1906 ; from 1913 to 1924 he was a member of the State Senate . There he brought in the Huber Law named after him in 1913 , according to which certain convicts could go to work during the day.

In 1924, Huber was elected Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin alongside John J. Blaine . He held this office after three re-elections between 1925 and 1933. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate. After Blaine, he also served under his successors, Fred R. Zimmerman , Walter Kohler, and Philip La Follette . Huber's tenure ended on January 2, 1933. He died just weeks later, on January 31, of heart failure in a Madison hospital.

Web links

• Henry Huber in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Political Graveyard