Hubbard, Samuel

Born: 1785-06-02 Boston, Massachusetts

Died: 1847-12-24 Boston, Massachusetts

Flourished: 1811 to 1847 Boston, Massachusetts

Samuel Hubbard, attorney and judge, received his early education in Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1802, then read law in New Haven for two years before returning to his native Boston to study further, and qualified at the bar in Suffolk County, Massachusetts in 1806. He practiced law in Biddeford, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts) until about 1811 when he settled permanently in Boston where he continued to work as an attorney, developing an expertise in mercantile law. Hubbard served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1816, 1817, 1818, 1820, 1821, and 1831, and in the Massachusetts Senate in 1823, 1824, and 1838. He was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in 1842 and he remained on the bench until his death.

Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (New York: Henry Holt, 1911), 5:507-10; William T. Davis, Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Boston: Boston History, 1895), 1:169, 275; Supplement, 54 Mass. (13 Metcalf) (1847), 548-60; Gravestone, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.