William Pallister Hubbard (December 24, 1843 – December 5, 1921) was an American Republican

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from

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who served as a

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. The son of Congressman Chester D. Hubbard, he served as a member of the 60th and

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es. Hubbard attended the public schools and

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in Wheeling. He graduated from

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in 1863. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1864. He enlisted in the Union Army as a private in 1865 in the

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. He rose to the rank of first lieutenant before being honorably discharged. After earning a Masters of Arts degree in 1866, again at Wesleyan, he returned to Wheeling and commenced the practice of law in 1866. He married Ann E. Chamberlin of

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in 1868. He was a clerk of the

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from 1866 to 1870, then served as a member of the House of Delegates in 1881 and 1882. He was chosen as a delegate to the

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in 1888 and 1912. At the 1912 Republican convention, Hubbard was a leading supporter of

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in his unsuccessful attempt to retake the

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. He was also an unsuccessful Republican candidate for

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in 1888. Hubbard's candidacy for election in 1890 to the

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was also unsuccessful. From 1901 to 1903 he served as chairman of the commission to revise the tax laws of West Virginia. He was elected in 1906 from West Virginia's 1st District as a Republican to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1911). He declined renomination in 1910 and returned to his law practice in Wheeling. There he died at the age of 77, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Wheeling.

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