Noble A. Hull

Noble A. Hull

Noble Andrew Hull (born March 11, 1827 in Little York , Camden County , Georgia , †  January 28, 1907 in Jacksonville , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives ; from 1877 to 1879 he was lieutenant governor of Florida.

Career

Noble Hull attended public schools in his home country and then Chatham Academy in Savannah . There he worked in trade from 1845. In 1851 he moved to Columbia County , Florida. After Suwannee County was founded, he was elected sheriff there. Politically, Hull was a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Florida House of Representatives in 1860 and 1861 . During the Civil War he was a captain in a cavalry unit of the Confederate Army .

After the war, Hull returned to trading in Jacksonville and Sanford . Between 1877 and 1879 he was Vice Governor of his state, Deputy to Governor George Franklin Drew . In the congressional election of 1878 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Florida , where he succeeded Robert HM Davidson on March 4, 1879 . The election result was challenged by the defeated Republican candidate Horatio Bisbee . This objection was only accepted a few weeks before the official end of the legislative period on January 22, 1881. On that day, Hull had to resign his mandate in Congress to Bisbee, who then ended the legislature by March 3 of the same year. In 1880, Noble Hull had not run again.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Hull resumed his previous trading activities. Between 1884 and 1888 he was an assistant postman in Jacksonville; from 1888 to 1900 he was an administrative clerk at the District Court in Duval County . Noble Hull died on January 28, 1907 in Jacksonville, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Noble A. Hull in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Noble A. Hull in the database of Find a Grave (English)