Thomas H. Hubbard

Thomas H. Hubbard

Thomas Hill Hubbard (born December 5, 1781 in New Haven , Connecticut , †  May 21, 1857 in Utica , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1817 and 1823 he represented the state of New York twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Hubbard received a classical school education. In 1799 he graduated from Yale College . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1804, he began to work in this profession in Hamilton . Politically, he joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . Between 1806 and 1816 he was a district councilor in Madison County . In the presidential elections of 1812 he was elector for DeWitt Clinton , which was not for Hubbard's party, but for the federalistsran for. This was possible then because some Democratic Republicans party members voted for the opposition in protest against the British-American War of 1812 . This did not change anything in the clear election victory of James Madison . Between 1816 and 1818, Hubbard was a district attorney in the sixth judicial district of his state; from 1818 to 1821 he did the same job in Madison County. These terms overlapped with his work as a congressman. He performed both functions at the same time. This was mainly possible because the Congress met relatively rarely.

In the congressional election of 1816 , Hubbard was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 17th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Westel Willoughby on March 4, 1817 . Until March 3, 1819 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress, during which he was chairman of the committee to control the expenditure of the Ministry of Post. In the elections of 1820 , Hubbard was re-elected to Congress in the 17th district, where he replaced Aaron Hackley on March 4, 1821 , who had succeeded him two years earlier. Until March 3, 1823, he could spend another term in the US House of Representatives, then the mandate fell back to Hackley.

In 1823, Hubbard moved to Utica, where he was employed on the Court of Chancery . Between 1825 and 1835 he was employed as a clerk at the New York Supreme Court . He was a co-founder of Hamilton College in Clinton . He was also the curator of the Utica Academy . Politically, he switched to the Democratic Party, founded in 1828, in the later years . In the presidential elections of 1844 and 1852, he was one of their electors who officially elected James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce respectively as president . Thomas Hubbard died on May 21, 1857 in Utica, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Thomas H. Hubbard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)