Levi Hubbell
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Biography
Born in Ballston, New York, Hubbell graduated from Union College in 1827 and was admitted to the New York Bar. He practiced law with his brother at Canandaigua, New York.[2]
Hubbell was appointed Adjutant General of New York from 1833 to 1836[3] by Governor William Marcy and served in the New York Assembly in 1841 as a Whig.
In 1844, Hubbell moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory where he practiced law at Finch & Lynde. When Wisconsin was admitted to the union on May 29, 1848, he ran as an independent Democrat in the second district, which then included both Milwaukee and Dane counties and was elected as one of the Wisconsin Circuit Court judges, which at that time constituted the Wisconsin Supreme Court.[2] Hubbell became chief justice of the supreme court after Alexander W. Stow left office. In 1853, however, when a new separate Supreme Court was being organized,[4] Hubbell lost the nomination for a seat on the new court.
Hubbell remained a circuit court judge, but was impeached and acquitted by the Wisconsin State Legislature on charges of corruption. He soon resigned in 1856, but in 1863, he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly.
In 1871, he was appointed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, but was forced to resign in 1875 because of accusations of corruption.[5][6][7]
Hubbell died in Milwaukee on December 8, 1876.[8] He was buried at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee.
He was married twice. He had two sons with his first wife, Susan Linn DeWitt of Albany, and a son, Dr. Singleton Beall Hubbell, M.D., and a daughter with the second wife, Miss Beall.[9]
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References
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- ↑ The Political Graveyard.com lists three Levi Hubbells; they are the same man
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- ↑ Levi Hubbell, Wisconsin Historical Society
- ↑ Members of the Wisconsin State Legislature 1848-1999
- ↑ History of the Hubbell Family
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