Edward Burd Hubley (1792February 23, 1856) was a member of the

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from

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Biography

Edward B. Hubley was born in

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. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1820 and commenced practice in Reading. He afterwards moved to

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, the county seat of

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. Hubley was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress. He served as canal commissioner of Pennsylvania from 1839 to 1842. He was appointed on November 8, 1842, as a commissioner to adjust and settle certain claims under the treaty with the

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of 1835. He resumed the practice of law in Reading and later moved to

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, where he died in 1856. Interment in

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in Reading, Pennsylvania.

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