Hubert Haskell Peavey (January 12, 1881 – November 21, 1937) was a

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from

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Background

Born in

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, Peavey moved with his parents to

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, in 1886. He attended the public schools, the high school at Redwood Falls, and Pillsbury Academy, in

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. He pursued various activities in

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, and Oklahoma from 1900 until 1904, when he moved to South Dakota and engaged in the real estate business. He moved to

Washburn, Wisconsin Washburn is a city in Bayfield County, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 2,051 at the 2020 census. The city is just east of and adjacent to the Town of Washburn. It is in northern Wisconsin, on the shore of Lake Superior's Che ...

, in 1909 and continued the real estate business.

Public office

He served as alderman in 1911 and as mayor of Washburn in 1912 and from 1920 to 1922. He was elected the member of the

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from the newly created Bayfield County Assembly district in 1912 as a self-described " Progressive Republican" with 1,199 votes to 517 for

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Henry Wachsmith and 302 for

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Gustav Hering; he was not opposed by a regular Republican, and Republican incumbent William Knight was not a candidate. He was the only Assembly member to declare himself a "Progressive Republican" in the ''

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'' for 1913. He was not a candidate for re-election in 1914, and was succeeded by Republican Walter A. Duffy. He became editor and publisher of the ''Washburn News'' in 1915. During the First World War, he joined Company D, Sixth Infantry,

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, and served as captain. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh

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. Peavey was elected as a

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to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses. (March 4, 1923 – January 3, 1935) For his first five terms in office he represented

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; however, the district was eliminated in 1933 following the 1930 Census and so Peavey redistricted and was elected to represent Wisconsin's 10th district as part of the 73rd Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress. He again engaged in the real estate business and also operated a fur ranch. He died in Washburn, Wisconsin, on November 21, 1937. He was interred in Woodland Cemetery.

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