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This Day in Minnesota History

January 26, 1836

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Lucius F. Hubbard is born in Troy, New York. After arriving in Minnesota in 1857, he would establish and edit the newspaper Red Wing Republican and would serve as a general in the Civil War and in the Spanish-American War. He would be ninth governor of the state, serving from 1882 to 1887; his second term lasted three years to cover the legislature's change to biennial sessions. During his tenure the Railroad and Warehouse Commission would be established. He died February 5, 1913. Hubbard County is named in his honor.

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