Hubert Summers Ellis was a Republican

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 United States Representative, banker and salesman from Huntington, West Virginia

Huntington, West Virginia

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. He was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth

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, Seventy-ninth

79th United States Congress

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, and Eightieth Congresses

80th United States Congress

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 (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1949).

He attended the public schools and Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia

Huntington, West Virginia

Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia, along the Ohio River. Most of the city is in Cabell County, for which it is the county seat. A small portion of the city, mainly the neighborhood of Westmoreland, is in Wayne County. Its population was 49,138 at...

. He worked in banking and as a salesman from 1910 to 1917 and in the general insurance business in 1920. He served in World War I

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 from 1917 - 1919 as a first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Division. He was elected to the House in 1942 and served three consecutive terms until 1949. His candidacies in 1948 and 1950 were unsuccessful. He was subsequently appointed West Virginia director for the Federal Housing Administration

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 on February 2, 1954, and resigned on February 10, 1958. He died in Huntington on December 3, 1959, and is buried in Woodmere Cemetery.

See also

• United States Congressional Delegations from West Virginia