Compiled by Russell Bastedo
State Curator
1998

Governor Henry Hubbard 1842, 1843. Hubbard (1784-1857) was born at Charlestown (NH). He was educated at home and graduated from Dartmouth College (Class of 1803). Hubbard read law with Jeremiah Mason at Portsmouth (NH), and was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar (1806). He set up a law practice at Charlestown that year.

Hubbard was elected Town Moderator in 1810, and then State Representative (1812,1813,1814,1819,1820,1823,1824; Speaker of the House, 1825-1827). He married (Sally Walker, 1813), served as selectman (1819,1820,1828), and was appointed Judge Advocate of the 5th Militia Brigade.

Hubbard had been a Federalist in his early years, but he be-came a Jackson Democrat. When Hubbard became Speaker of the House (1825) he followed Levi Woodbury, one of Jackson's closest advisors, who had been elected to the U.S. Senate. Hubbard at the time was serving also as Solicitor for Sullivan County (1823-1828); later he served as Probate Judge for the county (1827-1829). But he was a Woodbury protégé, and in 1831 Hubbard was elected to the first of two terms in the U. S. House of Representatives (served 1831-1835; Speaker pro tem, 1834). Hubbard was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1834 (served 1835-1841).

In 1841 Hubbard ran for Governor of New Hampshire, and won the first of two consecutive terms. Governor Hubbard favored lowering high national protective tariffs, denounced capital punishment, and called for state legislation to curb corporate shareholder profits made at the public expense.

After his years as governor, Hubbard served three years at the Sub-Treasury in Boston (1846-1849). Then he returned to Charlestown (NH) to practice law.

Location: State House, Second Floor, Corridor, West Face, Beginning at Room 208
Portrait copied by A. M. Knowlton from an original by [Matthew?] Wilson; Presented by descendents (1873)