Samuel Decius Hubbard (September 23, 1833 – June 14, 1910) was an American farmer, livestock dealer, and politician who served four discontinuous terms over three decades as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
[4] He enlisted as a private in the 27th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment on August 11, 1862 (after the legislative session ended), and was commissioned as a captain on September 1; his Assembly seat was taken by Democrat Henry Hayes.
Hubbard participated in the sieges of Vicksburg and Little Rock before being assigned to recruiting service in December 1863; he was discharged in April, 1864.
He was elected to the Assembly in 1873 from the 2nd Sheboygan County district (Towns of Greenbush, Lyndon, Mitchell, Plymouth, Rhine and Russell) as a candidate of the Reform Party (a short-lived coalition of Democrats, reform and Liberal Republicans, and Grangers formed in 1873, which secured the election of a Governor of Wisconsin and a number of state legislators) with 766 votes to 571 for regular Republican S. D. Putnam.
[8] He was an active member of the Knights of Pythias fraternal order, eventually serving as Grand Chancellor of that organization's Wisconsin body in 1888-1889.