David Hubbard (1792-20 January 1874) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-AL 2) from 4 March 1839 to 3 March 1841 (succeeding Joshua L. Martin and from AL-5 from 4 March 1849 to 3 March 1851 (interrupting George S. Houston's terms).
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David Hubbard was born in Bedford, Virginia in 1792, a cousin of Sam Houston. He served in the US Army during the War of 1812 before becoming a carpenter in Huntsville, Alabama and a lawyer in Florence, serving as a solicitor from 1823 to 1826. He moved to Moulton in 1827 and served in the state senate from 1827 to 1828, and he moved to Courtland in 1829 and served in the state house in 1831, 1842, 1843, 1845, and 1853, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1839 to 1841 and from 1849 to 1851, becoming the most influential and prominent secessionist in north Alabama. He moved to Spring Hill, Tennessee after the American Civil War, and he died in 1874.