Hubert Summers Ellis (July 6, 1887 – December 3, 1959) was a

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and salesman from Huntington, West Virginia. He was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1949). Ellis was born in

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, Putnam County, West Virginia in 1887. He attended the public schools and Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia. He worked in banking and as a salesman from 1910 to 1917 and in the general insurance business in 1920. He served in

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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

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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.

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1887 births 1959 deaths Military personnel from West Virginia American businesspeople in insurance American military personnel of World War I Marshall University alumni Politicians from Huntington, West Virginia People from Hurricane, West Virginia United States Army officers Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from West Virginia 20th-century American politicians {{US-Congress-stub

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