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in 1852, and began the practice of law in Tyler, Texas. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Cincinnati, June 2, 1856, and President Buchanan appointed him U.S. dis- trict attorney for the western district of Texas. He resigned in 1858 and was elected a rep- resentative in the state legislature. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Charles- ton, April 23, 1860, and at Richmond, Va., June 21, 1860. He took sides with the South, and raised the 22d regiment of Texas infantry, which he commanded throughout the civil war. At the close of hostilities he cultivated his farm and when his political disabilities Avere removed he re- sumed the practise of law. He was a Presiden- tial elector at large from Texas on the Greeley ticket in 1872; presided over the Democratic state convention of 1874 and was unanimously nominated for lieutenant-governor and elected by a majority of 50,000 votes. He was re-elected in 1876 by 102,000 majority, and when Governor Coke was transferred to the U.S. senate, Dec. 1, 1876, he became governor of Texas. His adminis- tration met the approval of the citizens as mani- fested by resolutions passed unanimously at the Democratic state convention of 1878. He was a delegate at large to the Democratic national con- vention at Cincinnati, June 22, 1880, where he was the first delegate to second the nomination of Gen. W. S. Hancock for President. He was again a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Chicago, July 8, 1884, where he was temporary chairman, and in the canvass that followed he accompanied the Vice-Presidential candidate in his tour of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. President Cleveland appointed him U.S. minister to Japan in 1883, where he negotiated the celebrated extradition treaty and also negotiated and signed the independent treaty of amity and commerce in 1889. On returning to the United States in 1890 he made his home in Tyler, Texas, and became interested in railroads in Texas, and was elected president of the Alexandria, Tyler and Northwestern Railroad company. He was mar- ried first to Eliza, daughter of Dr. C. B. Hudson, of Lafayette, Ala., and secondly to Janie R., daughter of the Hon. Willis Roberts, of Texas. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Mercer university in 1891. He is the author of

an address delivered at the Centennial exhibi- tion in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1876, on the •' Re- sources of Texas," which was published in permanent form and translated in the languages of the continent of Europe and largely read, resulting in an influx of desirable settlers to the state; and he was a member of the Trans- Mississippi state congresses at Topeka, Omaha and New Orleans. He is the author of: The United States in the Far East, or Modern Japan and the Orient, an epitome of his observations in Japan. He died in Tyler, Texas, July 12, 1901.

HUBBARD, Richard Dudley, governor of Con- necticut, was born in Berlin, Conn., Sept. 7, 1818; son of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Dudley) Hubbard. He was graduated at Yale in 1839; entered the law office of Hungerford & Cone at Hartford and qualified himself as a lawyer. He settled in practice in East Hartford, and was a representa- tive in the general assembly in 1842. He then removed to Hartford and represented that town in the general assembly, 1855-58. He was state's attorney for Hartford county, 1846-68; a repre- sentative in the 40th congress, 1867-69, declining re-election; was the defeated Democratic candi- date for governor of the state in 1872; was gov- ernor, 1876-78, and the defeated candidate in 1878. He was a trustee of Trinity college, 1856-58. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Trinity in 1851 and that of LL.D. from Yale in 1877. He died in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 28, 1884.

HUBBARD, Richard William, artist, was born in Middletown, Conn., Oct. 15, 1810; son of Thomas and Frances (Tabor) Hubbard. He was a student at Middletown academy and at Yale college, but did not graduate. He devoted him- self to art, opened a studio in New York city, and was elected a National Academician in 1858. He later made his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., and was president of the Brooklyn Art association. He was also president of the Artists' Fund society. He spent some time in England and on the con- tinent of Europe, but most of his subjects were American and include: Mansfield ^fountain at Sunset; Showery Day at Lake George; Meadows near TJtica; Twilight; High Peak. Nortli Comoay; Vermont Hills; TJie Coming Storm: Early Au- tumn; Glimpse of the Adirondack's — the last three exhibited at Philadelphia, 1876; Hartford, Conn. (1882); Afternoon in Summer (1884); Down on the Meadow (1885); The Watering Place (1885); Lake Caze7iovia(188(3); The Old Mill at Coxsackie (188G); Tlie Head of the Dam, Mount Moore, N. Y. (1886), all exhibited at tiie National Academy. He re- ceived the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1874. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 21, 1888.

HUBBARD, Samuel, jurist, was born in Bos- ton, Mass., June 2, 1785; son of David, grandson of Henry, and a direct descendant of the Rev.