Hubert Baxter SCUDDER, Congress, CA (1888-1968)

SCUDDER, Hubert Baxter, a Representative from California; born in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, Calif., November 5, 1888; graduated from the public schools; supplemented school training with correspondence courses, night schools, and reading of law; superintendent of utilities for the city of Sebastopol from July 1, 1912, to November 4, 1920; served in the United States Coast Artillery from May to December 1918; engaged in the insurance and real estate business in November 1920; elected city councilman of Sebastopol in April 1924 and mayor in 1926; member of the California State assembly from January 1925 to January 1940; appointed real estate commissioner of the State of California in January 1943 and resigned March 1, 1948; president of the National Association of License Law Officials from November 1947 to September 1948; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1959); was not a candidate for renomination in 1958; engaged in the real estate and insurance business; died in Sebastopol, Calif., July 4, 1968; interment in Sebastopol Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present