21 Facts About Carroll Hubbard

Carroll Hubbard began his political career in the Kentucky Senate, and was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1974.

Carroll Hubbard served until he was defeated in 1992, after becoming embroiled in the House banking scandal, and ultimately spent two years in prison.

Carroll Hubbard was a Democrat during his time in elected office, but he switched to the Republican Party in the last years of his life.

In Louisville, Mr Carroll Hubbard attended Eastern High School and graduated in 1955.

Carroll Hubbard was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order and served as its President of the fraternity during his senior year.

On June 15,1972, Carroll Hubbard was one of seven Democratic senators that voted against Kentucky's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Carroll Hubbard graduated from the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas in November 1962 and served in the Kentucky Air National Guard from 1962 to 1967, where he became a captain.

Carroll Hubbard served in the Kentucky Army National Guard from 1968 to 1970, where he became a captain.

Carroll Hubbard then won the general election in November 1974 and began serving in Congress in Washington, DC in January 1975.

Carroll Hubbard was reelected to Congress in the elections of 1976,1978,1980,1982,1984,1986,1988, and 1990, serving the people of the First District of Kentucky for 18 years in Washington, DC.

Carroll Hubbard served in Congress for 18 years, during which he mounted an unsuccessful primary challenge for Governor of Kentucky in 1979.

Carroll Hubbard lost his 1992 re-election bid in the Democratic primary to Thomas Barlow after becoming one of a number of Representatives embroiled in the "Rubbergate" House banking scandal.

Carroll Hubbard served as an FBI informant, codenamed Elmer Fudd, in an attempt to reduce his sentence.

Carroll Hubbard was disbarred because of his conviction but was reinstated by the Kentucky Supreme Court in 2001 because of his "good moral character", despite the Kentucky Bar Association's board of governors voting unanimously against reinstatement.

In 2019, while working on a case, Carroll Hubbard mailed a photograph of the opposing counsel and her wife with a homophobic slur written on it.

Later that year, Carroll Hubbard was found to be practicing law without a license as he had failed to complete the continuing education credits associated with the suspension.

Carroll Hubbard was ultimately permanently disbarred as a consequence of the incident, becoming the third lawyer in Kentucky history to be disbarred more than once.

In 2006 and 2008, Carroll Hubbard was unsuccessful in attempts to seek election to the Kentucky Senate.

Carroll Hubbard mounted a third and final unsuccessful bid in 2012.

Carroll Hubbard announced in 2019 that he was changing his party affiliation to Republican, expressing disagreement with "ultra liberal" positions in the Democratic Party.

Carroll Hubbard died at a nursing home in Paducah, Kentucky, on November 12,2022, at age 85.