Jay Abel Hubbell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jay Abel Hubbell

American politician

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1829

Place of Birth: Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 13-Oct-1900

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Jay Abel Hubbell

  • Jay Abel Hubbell (September 15, 1829 – October 13, 1900) was a politician and judge from the U.S.
  • state of Michigan, who served as a Republican member of the U.S.
  • House of Representatives. Hubbell was born in Avon (now Rochester Hills), 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.
  • Two years later, he began serving as prosecuting attorney of Houghton County from 1861 to 1867. In 1872, Hubbell was elected as a Republican to the 43rd and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1883 becoming the first to represent Michigan's 9th congressional district.
  • Governor John J.
  • Bagley appointed Hubbell as state commissioner to the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition, in which capacity he collected and prepared the state exhibit of minerals.
  • During the 47th Congress he chaired the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior. 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 and is interred there at Forest Hill Cemetery. Hubbell is the figure most responsible for getting the state legislature to establish a school of mines for the training of mine engineers in Houghton.
  • Hubbell donated land for the school's first buildings in 1885.
  • The school of mines eventually expanded into Michigan Technological University. Jay Abel Hubbell is the eponym of Hubbell, an unincorporated community in Houghton County.

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