Elbert H. Hubbard
Elbert Hamilton Hubbard | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 11th district | |
In office March 4, 1905 – June 4, 1912 | |
Preceded by | Lot Thomas |
Succeeded by | George C. Scott |
Personal details | |
Born | Rushville, Indiana, U.S. | August 19, 1849
Died | June 4, 1912 Sioux City, Iowa, U.S. | (aged 62)
Alma mater | Yale College |
Elbert Hamilton Hubbard (August 19, 1849 – June 4, 1912), a second-generation congressman, was a four-term Republican U.S. Representative from the now-obsolete 11th congressional district in northwestern Iowa.
Born in
In 1881 he was elected to the
In 1904, Lot Thomas, the Congressman representing Iowa's 11th congressional district, declined to run for re-election, prompting Hubbard and many other Republicans in northwest Iowa to run for the seat. On May 6, 1904, Hubbard won the Republican nomination on the 65th ballot at the district convention.[2] With popular President Theodore Roosevelt at the top of the Republican ticket that November, Hubbard won, as part of a Republican sweep of all eleven Iowa U.S. House elections.[3] After serving in the Fifty-ninth Congress, he was re-elected three times to the three succeeding Congresses. One day after defeating challenger George Cromwell Scott the 1912 Republican primary, he died. In all, Hubbard served in Congress from March 4, 1905 to June 4, 1912. He was interred in Floyd Cemetery in Sioux City.
See also
- List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
References
- ^ "Senator Elbert Hamilton Hubbard". Iowa General Assembly. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
- ^ "Hubbard for Congress," Sumner Journal, 1904-05-12 at p.1.
- ^ "Republicans Carry Iowa by over 130,000," Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, 1904-11-09 at p.1.
- United States Congress. "Elbert H. Hubbard (id: H000882)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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