Elbert H. Hubbard

Elbert Hamilton Hubbard
Elbert Hamilton Hubbard
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	August 19, 1849; Rushville, Indiana, U.S.
Died	June 4, 1912 (aged 62); Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.
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 Rushville, Indiana to Judge Asahel Wheeler Hubbard and his wife, Hubbard attended the public schools and was instructed by a private tutor. He came with his father to Iowa in 1856, locating at Sioux City, Iowa. During the Civil War, his father was elected three times to represent Iowa's newly created 6th congressional district in the U.S. House, serving from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1869. During the end of his father's Congressional service, Elbert Hubbard began to attend Yale College, graduating in 1872. After studying law in Sioux City with C. R. Marks, he was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in Sioux City.

In 1881 he was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives from Woodbury County, Iowa. In 1899 he was elected to the Iowa State Senate, where he served from 1900 to 1902.^[1]

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.

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.

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Lot Thomas	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 11th congressional district 1905–1912	Succeeded by George C. Scott

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

[iaga-1] "Senator Elbert Hamilton Hubbard". Iowa General Assembly. Retrieved November 30, 2023.

[2] "Hubbard for Congress," Sumner Journal, 1904-05-12 at p.1.

[3] "Republicans Carry Iowa by over 130,000," Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, 1904-11-09 at p.1.

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4th	Grinnell Loughridge Walden Pratt Deering Weller Fuller Sweney Butler Updegraff Haugen Biermann Talle LeCompte Carter Kyl Bandstra Kyl N. Smith Ganske Latham King Feenstra
5th	Kasson G. Dodge Palmer J. Wilson R. Clark W. G. Thompson J. Wilson Frederick Kerr J. Hamilton Cousins Good Cole Thurston LeCompte Cunningham N. Smith Scherle Harkin Lightfoot Grandy Latham King
6th	A. Hubbard Pomeroy Orr Loughridge Sampson Weaver Cutts J. C. Cook Cutts J. C. Cook Weaver Lacey White Lacey D. Hamilton Kendall Kirkpatrick Ramseyer Dowell Utterback Dowell Goodwin Cunningham Gilchrist J. I. Dolliver Coad Hoeven Greigg Mayne Bedell Grandy
7th	Kasson Cummings E. Gillette Kasson H. Smith Conger Hays Hull Prouty Dowell Wearin Jensen Hansen Scherle
8th	McDill Sapp Hepburn Anderson Flick Hepburn Jamieson Towner Evans Thurston Gilchrist Hoeven
9th	Orr Oliver Carpenter Pusey Lyman Reed Bowman Hager McPherson W. Smith Green Vincent Swanson G. Gillette Harrington Narey
10th	Holmes J. P. Dolliver Conner Woods Dickinson Gilchrist
11th	Struble Perkins Thomas E. Hubbard Scott Steele Scott Boies Campbell
AL	Hastings Leffler
Terr	Chapman A. Dodge

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