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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | William P. Hubbard |
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Wheeling, West Virginia , United States |
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December 24, 1843
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| Died | December 05, 1921
(77 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
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| Info | HUBBARD, William Pallister, (son of Chester Dorman Hubbard), a Representative from West Virginia; born in Wheeling, Va. (later West Virginia), December 24, 1843; attended the public schools and Linsly Institute of Wheeling; was graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1863; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1864; enlisted in the Union Army as a private in 1865 in the third West Virginia Cavalry, being a first lieutenant when honorably discharged; returned to Wheeling and commenced the practice of law in 1866; clerk of the West Virginia house of delegates 1866-1870; member of the house of delegates in 1881 and 1882; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1888 and 1912; unsuccessful Republican candidate for attorney general of West Virginia in 1888; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; chairman of the commission to revise the tax laws of West Virginia 1901-1903; elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1911); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1910; resumed the practice of law in Wheeling, W.Va.; died in Wheeling, W.Va., December 5, 1921; interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
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