Samuel Decius Hubbard (September 23, 1833June 14, 1910) was an American farmer,

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dealer, and politician who served four discontinuous terms over three decades as a member of the

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. He also served as a

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officer during the

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Background

Hubbard was born in

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, in

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on September 23, 1833. He received an academic education and attended

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. and became a member of the

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; at that time his residence was in Sauquoit. He became a farmer by trade. Hubbard came to

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in 1859, and initially settled in

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In Wisconsin; Assembly and Civil War

In years to come Hubbard held various local offices and was a member and chairman of various

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and county boards for a number of years. On June 11, 1861 he married Electa Jane Robinson. He was first elected to the Assembly for the 3rd Sheboygan County district (now reduced after a redistricting to the Towns of

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, Mitchell and Scott) in 1861, as a "Union

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", succeeding Republican William F. Mitchell; and was assigned to the

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s. He enlisted as a private in the

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on August 11, 1862 (after the legislative session ended), and was commissioned as a captain on September 1; his Assembly seat was taken by Democrat Henry Hayes. Hubbard participated in the sieges of Vicksburg and

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before being assigned to recruiting service in December 1863; he was discharged in April, 1864. In 1868 he moved to Lyndon, and took up dealing in livestock as well as farming.

Return to civilian life

He was elected to the Assembly in 1873 from the 2nd Sheboygan County district (Towns of Greenbush, Lyndon, Mitchell,

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and

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) as a candidate of the Reform Party (a short-lived coalition of Democrats,

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and Liberal

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, and

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formed in 1873, which secured the election of a

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and a number of state legislators) with 766 votes to 571 for regular Republican S. D. Putnam. He was assigned to the committees on incorporations and legislative expenditures, chairing the latter. He was not a candidate for re-election, and was succeeded by fellow Reform Party candidate Patrick Geraghty. Hubbard served as a deputy

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at the state prison in 1874. In 1876, serving as chairman of his

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, Hubbard was elected once again to the Assembly in 1876 as a Liberal Republican, with 1,254 votes to 1,104 for Republican incumbent Nathaniel Farnsworth; he was assigned to the committee on federal relations. By this time, he listed himself simply as a "farmer" with no mention of dealing in livestock. He moved to Mondovi in Buffalo County in 1878, and was elected a fourth time to the Assembly in 1884 for Buffalo County as a Republican, with 1,604 votes to 1,177 for Democratic former Assemblyman George Cowie. (Republican incumbent

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was not a candidate.) He was not a candidate for re-election in 1886, and was succeeded by Republican

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. As of October 1, 1907, he was still listed as an active member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was an active member of the

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fraternal order, eventually serving as Grand Chancellor of that organization's Wisconsin body in 1888-1889. He died June 14, 1910;"Samuel D. Hubbard, P.G.C." in ''Official Record of Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Convention of the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias'' Minneapolis: Murphy-Travis Company, 1912; p. 455 his grave is in Oak Park Cemetery in Mondovi.

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