Ellery Albee Hibbard | |
State1: | New Hampshire |
District1: | 1st |
Term Start1: | March 4, 1871 |
Term End1: | March 3, 1873 |
Office2: | Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives |
Term2: | 1852-1854 1865-1866 |
Birth Date: | 31 July 1826 |
Resting Place: | Union Cemetery Laconia, Belknap County New Hampshire, USA |
Party: | Democratic |
Spouse: | Mary Houston Bell Hibbard Mary B Hibbard |
Parents: | Silas Hibbard Olive Albee Hibbard |
Relations: | Harry Hibbard cousin |
Children: | Charles Bell Hibbard Jennie Olive Hibbard Lougee Walter Silas Hibbard Laura Bartlett Hibbard |
Occupation: | Lawyer Judge Politician |
Ellery Albee Hibbard (July 31, 1826 – July 24, 1903) was an American politician, a lawyer, a judge, and a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.
Born in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia County, Vermont, Hibbard pursued academic studies, then read law with Nathan B. Felton and Charles A. Morrison in Haverhill and Exeter, New Hampshire. He was admitted to the bar in 1849.
Hibbard practiced in Plymouth, New Hampshire, until 1853, and then in Laconia, Belknap County, New Hampshire. He served as clerk of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1852–1854, as Moderator of Laconia in 1862 and 1863, and as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1865 and 1866.[1]
Elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress, Hibbard served as United States Representative for the state of New Hampshire from (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress. He was appointed judge of the New Hampshire Supreme Court in March 1873 and served until 1874,[2] when he resigned and continued the practice of law. He served as director of Laconia National Bank, as a member of the board of education of Laconia.
Hibbard died in Laconia, on July 24, 1903 (age 76 years, 358 days). He is interred at Union Cemetery, Laconia, New Hampshire.
Son of Silas and Olive Albee,[3] Hibbard married Mary Houston Bell on December 5, 1853, and they had four children, Charles Bell, Jennie Olive, Walter Silas, and Laura Bartlett. He was a cousin of Harry Hibbard.[4]