Hubert Summers Ellis

Hubert Summers Ellis (born July 6, 1887 in Hurricane , Putnam County , West Virginia , † December 3, 1959 in Huntington , West Virginia) was an American politician . From 1943 to 1949 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Hubert Ellis attended public schools in his home country and then Marshall College in Huntington. From 1910 to 1917 he worked as a trader and in the banking business. During the First World War he served as a first lieutenant in an artillery unit in the US Army . After the war he also got into the insurance business.

Politically, Ellis was a member of the Republican Party . In 1942 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , as their candidate in the fourth district of West Virginia , where he succeeded Democrat George William Johnson on January 3, 1943 . After two re-elections, Ellis was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1949 , which were initially determined by the events of the Second World War and then by the beginning of the Cold War .

In the 1948 election, Ellis was defeated by the Democrat Maurice G. Burnside . In 1950 he ran unsuccessfully for his return to Congress. From 1954 to 1958, Hubert Ellis was the West Virginia director of the Federal Housing Administration . He died in Huntington on December 3, 1959.

Web links

• Hubert Summers Ellis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hubert Summers Ellis in the database of Find a Grave (English)