William P. Hubbard

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William Pallister Hubbard, the son of Chester Dorman Hubbard, was a Republican politician from West Virginia who served as a United States Representative. Congressman Hubbard was born in Wheeling, West Virginia (then in Virginia) on December 24, 1843. He served as a member of the 60th and 61st United States Congresses. He died December 5, 1921.

He attended the public schools and Linsly Institute of Wheeling. He graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 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 third West Virginia Cavalry. He had risen to the rank of first lieutenant when honorably discharged. He returned to Wheeling and commenced the practice of law in 1866.

He was a clerk of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1866 to 1870. He then served as a member of the House of Delegates in 1881 and 1882. He was chosen as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1888 and 1912. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Attorney General of West Virginia in 1888.

His candidacy for election in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress 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 as a Republican to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1911). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1910 and returned to his law practice in Wheeling. He died in Wheeling on December 5, 1921 and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.