William P. Hubbard

William Pallister Hubbard (born December 24, 1843 in Wheeling , Virginia , † December 5, 1921 there ) was an American politician . Between 1907 and 1911 he represented the first constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Hubbard was the son of Chester D. Hubbard (1814-1891), who sat for West Virginia in the US House of Representatives between 1865 and 1869. The younger Hubbard was born in 1843 in Wheeling, which was then still part of Virginia and later became part of the state of West Virginia, which was founded in 1863. He attended public schools in his home country and the Linsley Institute . He then studied until 1863 at Wesleyan University in Middletown ( Connecticut ). After completing a law degree, he was admitted to the bar in 1864.

In 1865 he joined the in recent months civil war in the army of the Union one. There he quickly rose from a simple soldier to a first lieutenant. After the end of the war, Hubbard worked as a lawyer in Wheeling from 1866. Between 1866 and 1870 he was also an administrator in the West Virginia House of Representatives . Hubbard was a member of the Republican Party and a member of the House of Representatives from 1881 to 1882. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Benjamin Harrison was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. In the same year he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Attorney General of West Virginia. Equally unsuccessful was his candidacy in the 1890 congressional election. Between 1901 and 1903, Hubbard chaired a commission that revised the tax laws of West Virginia.

In 1906, Hubbard was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the first district of West Virginia , where he succeeded Blackburn B. Dovener on March 4, 1907 . After a re-election in 1908, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1911 . In 1910 he renounced another candidacy. After his tenure in Congress was over, Hubbard returned to the Wheeling bar. In 1912 he was again a delegate to the Republican National Convention. There he supported the efforts of former President Theodore Roosevelt for a nomination, which went to incumbent President William Howard Taft . As a result, Roosevelt ran on his own list, which led to the splintering of the Republican votes and the election of Democrat Woodrow Wilson .

William Hubbard, who had been married to Ann E. Chamberlain from Louisiana since 1868, died on December 5, 1921 in his birthplace in Wheeling and was buried there.

Web links

• William P. Hubbard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William P. Hubbard in the database of Find a Grave (English)