Representative Hubert Summers Ellis

Hubert Summers Ellis served as a Representative from West Virginia in the United States Congress from 1943 to 1949. A member of the Republican Party, Hubert Summers Ellis contributed to the legislative process during 3 terms in office.

Hubert Summers Ellis’s service in Congress occurred during a significant period in American history. As a member of the House of Representatives, Hubert Summers Ellis participated in the democratic process and represented the interests of constituents.

Hubert Summers Ellis (July 6, 1887 – December 3, 1959) was a Republican United States Representative, banker 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 Hurricane, 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 World War I 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 Federal Housing Administration on February 2, 1954, and resigned on February 10, 1958. He died in Huntington on December 3, 1959, and is buried in Woodmere Cemetery.