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 U.S. House of Representatives; 1877 to 1879 he was vice- governor of Florida.

Career

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

After the war, Hull worked in Jacksonville and Sanford back in the trade. Between 1877 and 1879 he served as lieutenant governor of his state deputy governor George Franklin Drew. In the congressional elections of 1878 he was in the second electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert HM Davidson on March 4, 1879. The election result was however challenged by the defeated Republican candidate Horatio Bisbee. This contradiction was granted only a few weeks before the official end of its term on 22 January 1881. On this day, Hull had his seat in Congress to cede Bisbee, who then ended the legislative session until March 3 of that year. In 1880, Noble Hull did not stand again.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Hull took his previous activities in the commercial again. Between 1884 and 1888 he was deputy postmaster in Jacksonville; 1888 to 1900 he was Clerk of the District Court in Duval County. Noble Hull died on January 28, 1907 in Jacksonville, where he was also buried.