William Pallister Hubbard

William Pallister Hubbard ( born December 24, 1843 in Wheeling, Virginia; † December 5, 1921 ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1911 he represented the first electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Hubbard was the son of Chester D. Hubbard (1814-1891), who was sitting 1865-1869 for West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives. The younger Hubbard was born in 1843 in Wheeling, which at that time was still part of Virginia and later became part of the company founded in 1863 state of West Virginia. He attended the common schools and the Linsley Institute. Then he studied until 1863 at Wesleyan University in Middletown (Connecticut). After a subsequent law degree, he was admitted in 1864 as a lawyer.

In 1865 he joined the Union army in the last months of the Civil War. There he quickly rose from the rank and file soldiers to up to first lieutenant. After the end of the war, Hubbard worked since 1866 as an attorney in Wheeling. Between 1866 and 1870 he was also an administrative employee at the House of Representatives from West Virginia. Hubbard was a member of the Republican Party and from 1881 to 1882 a member of the House of Representatives. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, at the Benjamin Harrison was nominated as presidential candidate of the party. In the same year, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Attorney General of West Virginia. Also unsuccessful was his candidacy in the congressional elections of the year 1890. Between 1901 and 1903, Hubbard was chairman of a commission that revised the tax laws of the State of West Virginia.

1906 Hubbard was elected in the first district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Blackburn B. Dovener on March 4, 1907. After a re-election in 1908, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 two legislative sessions. In 1910 he gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in Congress Hubbard again worked as a lawyer in Wheeling. In 1912 he was again a delegate to the Republican National Convention. There he supported the efforts of former President Theodore Roosevelt to a nomination, but went to the incumbent President Taft William Howard. As a result, Roosevelt ran then on a separate list, which led to the fragmentation of the Republican vote and the election victory of Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

Since 1868, with Ann E. Chamberlain from Louisiana married William Hubbard died on 5 December 1921 in his native Wheeling and was also buried there.