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Jay Abel Hubbell (September 15, 1829 – October 13, 1900) was a politician and judge from the
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, who served as a Republican member of the
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. Hubbell was born in Avon (now Rochester Hills), Michigan. He graduated from the
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in 1853, studied law and was admitted to the
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in 1855. He was elected
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of the
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in 1857 and 1859. Two years later, he began serving as
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of Houghton County from 1861 to 1867. In 1872, Hubbell was elected as a Republican to the 43rd and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1883, becoming the first to represent
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appointed Hubbell as state commissioner to the
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, in which capacity he collected and prepared the state exhibit of
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. During the 47th Congress he chaired the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior. Hubbell is, perhaps, best known for his creation of the "Grand Army Journal" newspaper. This libelous publication was almost universally denounced. Its sole purpose was to defame Senator Thomas Ferry. Ferry was a powerful Senator who was well regarded in Michigan and across the country. Hubbell sought (unsuccessfully) to take his place in the Senate by throwing slanderous headlines in his "Journal" which he mailed out by the thousands. After leaving Congress, he served in the
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from 1885 to 1887, was a
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for Michigan in the 1892 election, and served as circuit judge of the twelfth judicial circuit from 1894 until his resignation in 1899. He died in
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, and is interred there at Forest Hill Cemetery. Hubbell is the figure most responsible for getting the state legislature to establish a school of mines for the training of mine engineers in Houghton. Hubbell donated land for the school's first buildings in 1885.Willis F. Dunbar and George S. May, ''Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State'' (Grand Rapids: Eerdman's, 1995), 359. The school of mines eventually expanded into
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. Jay Abel Hubbell is the eponym of Hubbell, an
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in Houghton County.


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