Carroll Hubbard, Jr. (born July 7, 1937), a Democrat, represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives and was later convicted of multiple felonies related to misuse of that office.
Hubbard was born in Murray, Kentucky, attended public schools, and graduated from Eastern High School in Middletown, Kentucky in 1955. He graduated from Georgetown College in 1959 and from the University of Louisville law school in 1962. Hubbard grad...
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Carroll Hubbard, Jr. (born July 7, 1937), a Democrat, represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives and was later convicted of multiple felonies related to misuse of that office.
Hubbard was born in Murray, Kentucky, attended public schools, and graduated from Eastern High School in Middletown, Kentucky in 1955. He graduated from Georgetown College in 1959 and from the University of Louisville law school in 1962. Hubbard graduated law school in the same class as Terry McBrayer who would later run against Hubbard in the 1979 Kentucky governor race. Hubbard began a law practice in 1962 in Mayfield, Kentucky.
Hubbard was elected to the Kentucky Senate and served in the District 1 seat from 1968 to 1975. In 1974 he ran against the incumbent Democrat Frank Stubblefield in the Democratic primary for Kentucky's first district seat on the United States House of Representatives. The 1st District was (and is) in the far western part of the state. Hubbard upset Stubblefield...
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