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Senate Years of Service: 1835-1841 Party: Jacksonian; Democrat
HUBBARD, Henry, a Representative and a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Charlestown,
Sullivan County, N.H., May 3, 1784; pursued classical studies under private tutors and graduated
from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1803; studied law in Portsmouth, N.H.; admitted to the
bar about 1806 and commenced practice in Charlestown; town moderator sixteen times, beginning in
1810; first selectman in 1819, 1820, and 1828; member, State house of representatives 1812-1815,
1819-1820, 1823-1827, and served three years as speaker; State solicitor for Cheshire County
1823-1828; probate judge of Sullivan County 1827-1829; elected as a Jacksonian to the
Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1835);
chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Twenty-second Congress); elected as a Democrat
to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1835, to March 3, 1841; was not a candidate
for reelection; chairman, Committee on Claims (Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congresses);
Governor of New Hampshire 1841-1843; United States subtreasurer at Boston, Mass., 1846-1849;
died in Charlestown, N.H., June 5, 1857; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.
BibliographyPolitical Portraits with Pen and Pencil: Henry Hubbard,
of New Hampshire. The United States Democratic Review 9 (August 1841):
182-188.
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