Jay Abel Hubbell
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Jay Abel Hubbell (15 September 1829–13 October 1900) was an American politician from Michigan, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Hubbell was born in Avon (Oakland County), Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1853, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1855. He was elected district attorney of the Upper Peninsula in 1857 and 1859. He was prosecuting attorney of Houghton County from 1861 to 1867. The Governor of Michigan appointed Hubbell as state commissioner to the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition, in which capacity he collected and prepared the state exhibit of minerals.[1]
Jay Abel Hubbell was elected as a Republican to the 43rd and to the four succeeding Congresses (4 March 1873 - 3 March 1883). During the 47th Congress he chaired the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior.[2]
After leaving Congress, he served in the state Senate from 1885 to 1887, was a presidential elector 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 Houghton, Michigan.[3]
Jay Abel Hubbell is the namesake of Hubbell, an unincorporated community in Houghton County.
[edit] See also
- Edwin N. Hubbell (born 1815, date of death unknown), congressman from New York
- James R. Hubbell (1824–1890), congressman from Ohio
- William S. Hubbell (1801–1873) congressman from New York
