Hubert S. Ellis

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Hubert Summers Ellis was a Republican United States Representative, banker and salesman from West Virginia. He was born in Hurricane, Putnam County, West Virginia, on July 6, 1887. He was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1949). He died on December 3, 1959.

He attended the public schools and Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia. He worked in banking and as a salesman from 1910 to 1917. He worked in the general insurance business in 1920. He served in World War I 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 till 1949. His candidacies in 1948 and 1950 were unsuccessful. He was subsequently appointed West Virginia director for the Federal Housing Administration February 2, 1954 and resigned February 10, 1958. He died in Huntington, December 3, 1959. He was buried in Woodmere Cemetery.