Carroll Hubbard

Carroll Hubbard, Jr. ( * July 7, 1937 in Murray, Kentucky) is an American politician. Between 1975 and 1993 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Carroll Hubbard attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1955, the Eastern High School in Middletown. Subsequently, he studied until 1959 at Georgetown College. After studying law at the University of Louisville and his 1962 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in this profession in Mayfield. Between 1962 and 1970, Hubbard was a member of the National Guard of Kentucky. He was in the Air Corps and then at the ground units until 1968.

Politically, Hubbard became a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1968 and 1975 he sat in the Senate from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1974, he was the first electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frank Stubblefield on January 3, 1975. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1993 for nine consecutive terms of office. In 1979 he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the gubernatorial elections.

1992 Carroll Hubbard was involved in the Rubber gate scandal. Then he was no longer nominated by his party for another term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Hubbard pleaded guilty to comply with the financial provisions of the federal election campaign laws, and was sentenced to a prison sentence of two years, which he served between 1995 and 1997. In the years 2006 and 2008, he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in each of Kentucky.

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