Jay Abel Hubbell

Jay Abel Hubbell ( born September 15, 1829 in Avon, Michigan, † October 13, 1900 in Houghton, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1883 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jay Hubbell attended the common schools and then studied until 1853 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1855 admitted to the bar he began in Ontonagon to work in his new profession. Between 1857 and 1859 was Hubbell District Attorney 's Upper Peninsula, the north-west peninsula of the State of Michigan. In 1860 he moved his office and his residence to Houghton, where he continued to practice until 1870 as a lawyer. From 1861 to 1867 he was district attorney in Houghton County. He also was interested in the mineral deposits on the Upper Peninsula.

Politically, Hubbell member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1872 he was in the then newly created ninth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1873. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1883 five legislative sessions. Since 1881 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Interior.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Hubbell initially continued his political career continued at the state level. Between 1885 and 1887 he was a member of the Senate of Michigan. From 1894 to 1899 he served as judge in the Twelfth Judicial District of the State of. He died on October 13, 1900 in Houghton, where he was also buried.

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