Chester D. Hubbard

Chester Dorman Hubbard ( born November 25, 1814 Hamden, Connecticut; † August 23, 1891 in Wheeling, West Virginia ) was an American politician. From 1865 to 1869 he represented the first electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

With his parents Hubbard came to Wheeling in 1819, was part of Virginia at that time. Later he attended until 1840 the Wesleyan University in Middletown (Connecticut). In the following years he worked in the banking industry as well as in the iron and wood processing. At the same time he also began a career in politics. Between 1852 and 1853 he sat in the House of Representatives from Virginia.

In the spring of 1861 Hubbard was a delegate to the Congress, which decided on the withdrawal of Virginia from the Union. Hubbard resisted, like many of his colleagues from the future state of West Virginia, these plans. But this group was in the minority and Virginia broke away from the Union in order to soon to join the Confederate States. That same year, 1861, Hubbard was a delegate at a conference in Wheeling, on which the supporters of the Union met and the cleavage of West Virginia from Virginia prepared. After the founding of the State of West Virginia Hubbard in 1863 elected to the Senate. He was a member of the Republican Party and in the years 1864 and 1880 a delegate to the Republican National Conventions respective upon which Abraham Lincoln and James A. Garfield was nominated as the presidential candidate of the party.

1864 Hubbard was a Unionist in the first district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jacob B. Blair on March 4, 1865. Two years later he was confirmed as a regular candidate of the Republican Party. He was able to complete up to March 3, 1869 two terms in Congress, who were determined by the consequences of the Civil War. During this time, also the 13th and the 14th Amendment, discussed and adopted that abolished slavery or the civil rights widened on African Americans. It also came to the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, which was approved in the House of Representatives, but failed on a vote in the U.S. Senate. Since 1867, Hubbard was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Interior.

After the end of his time in Congress, Hubbard again devoted his earlier private transactions. He died in August 1891 in Wheeling, and was buried there. His son William took later also the state of West Virginia as a congressman.