Asahel W. Hubbard

HUBBARD

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 21:26:04

By the census of 1862, Iowa was entitled to six Representatives in Congress. Butler county, on the State being re-districted, became a part of the Sixth district. Its first Representative from this district was Asahel W. Hubbard, from Sioux City. He was elected in the fall of 1862, and became a member of the 38th Congress. He was re-elected a member of the 39th and 40th Congresses.
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He was a native of Connecticut, born in 1817. In 1836 he came West to Indiana, and in 1857 to Iowa, locating at Sioux City. He had been in the latter place only one year when he was elected Judge of the Fourth Judicial District. While a member of Congress he served on committees of Foreign Affairs. Public Expenditures and Indian Affairs. He was very attentive to his duties while in Congress, and served his constituents and the State with unqualified satisfaction.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page: 288