Hubert Summers Ellis (July 6, 1887 – December 3, 1959) was a Republican

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and salesman from

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. He was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1949). Ellis was born in

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in 1887. He attended the public schools and Marshall College in

. He worked in banking and as a salesman from 1910 to 1917 and in the general insurance business in 1920. He served in

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from 1917 - 1919 as a first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Division. He was elected to the House in 1942 and served three consecutive terms until 1949. His candidacies in 1948 and 1950 were unsuccessful. He was subsequently appointed West Virginia director for the

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on February 2, 1954, and resigned on February 10, 1958. He died in Huntington on December 3, 1959, and is buried in Woodmere Cemetery.

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