John F. Hubbard Jr.

John F. Hubbard (October 14, 1822 – after 1873) was an American newspaper editor and politician from New York.

Life

He was born on October 14, 1822, in Norwich, Chenango County, New York, the son of State Senator John F. Hubbard (1795–1876) and Almira (Mead) Hubbard (1800-1878). He studied law, but did not practice. He married Josephine Henrietta Moore.

In 1847, he received an appointment in the War Department from U.S. Secretary of War William L. Marcy. He remained in Washington, D.C., holding various subordinate offices, until 1854 when he returned to Norwich. He was a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention. He published the Chenango Union.

In 1866, he received a recess appointment by President Andrew Johnson as Assessor of Internal Revenue for the 19th District of New York. The appointment was rejected by the U.S. Senate, and on February 18, 1867, Johnson nominated David L. Follett to the office.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (23rd D.) from 1868 to 1871, sitting in the 91st, 92nd, 93rd and 94th New York State Legislatures. At the New York state election, 1872, he ran on the Democratic/Liberal Republican ticket for Canal Commissioner but was defeated by Republican Reuben W. Stroud. Hubbard was a member of the Constitutional Commission of 1872–73.

Sources

• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 444)
• Life Sketches of the State Officers, Senators, and Members of the Assembly of the State of New York in 1868 by S. R. Harlow & S. C. Hutchins (pg. 92f)
• Courts and Lawyers of New York: A History, 1609–1925 by Alden Chester & Edwin Melvin Williams (Vol. I; pg. 713ff, "The Constitutional Commission of 1872")