Edward Burd Hubley

Edward Burd Hubley (* 1792 in Reading, Pennsylvania, † February 23, 1856 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1835 and 1839 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Hubley attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1820 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Reading in this profession. Later he transferred his residence and his law firm after Orwigsburg. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this.

In the congressional elections of 1834 Hubley was in the eighth constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry King on March 4, 1835. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1839 two legislative sessions. From 1839 to 1842 Hubley was State Representative for the channel being. In 1842 he was commissioner for renegotiations to an agreement with the Cherokee from the year 1835. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer again. He later moved to Philadelphia, where he died on 23 February 1856.