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Hubbard, Henry

lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, United States senator, was born May 3, 1784, in Charlestown, N. H. He was frequently a member of the state legislature, and for some years speaker of the house; and was judge of probate for Sullivan county from 1827 to 1829. He was a representative in congress from 1829 to 1835, and a senator in congress from 1835 to 1841; was was governor of New Hampshire in 1842 and 1843; and from 1846 to 1849 was United States assistant treasurer in Boston. For a part of the time during the twentyeighth congress he acted as speaker of the house of representatives. He died June 5, 1857, in Charlestown, N. H.

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