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 two-time New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Hubbard received a classical education. In 1799 he graduated from Yale College. After a subsequent law degree in 1804 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Hamilton in this profession. Politically, he joined, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1806 and 1816 he was District in Madison County. In the presidential election of 1812, he served as an elector for DeWitt Clinton, the candidate but not for Hubbard's party, but for the Federalists. That was possible because some party members of the Democratic Republicans voted in protest against the British -American War of 1812 for the opposition. However, this did not change the clear victory of James Madison. Between 1816 and 1818, Hubbard was district attorney for the sixth judicial district of his state; 1818 to 1821 he held the same job in Madison County. These tenures overlapped with his work as a congressman. He practiced both functions simultaneously. This was mainly possible because of the Congress met relatively rare.

In the congressional elections of 1816, Hubbard was in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Westel Willoughby on March 4, 1817. Until March 3, 1819, he was initially able to complete a term in Congress, during which he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Post Ministry. In the elections of 1820, Hubbard was re-elected in the 17th District in Congress, where he replaced Aaron Hackley on March 4, 1821 which was two years before become his successor. Until March 3, 1823, he could spend another term in the U.S. House of Representatives, then the mandate again fell to Hackley.

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