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Carroll Hubbard Jr. (born July 7, 1937) is an American former politician. A Democrat, he represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1993.
Political career
Congressional career
Hubbard served in Congress for 18 years, during which he mounted an unsuccessful primary challenge for governor in 1979.
In 1983, Hubbard was invited to South Korea to attend a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the United States–South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty with three fellow members of Congress, including Larry McDonald and Senator Jesse Helms. Hubbard and Helms planned to meet with McDonald to discuss how to join McDonald on the Korean Air Lines Flight 007. However, as the delays mounted, instead of joining McDonald, Hubbard at the last minute gave up on the trip, canceled his reservations, and accepted a Kentucky speaking engagement. The flight was later shot down by the Soviet Union killing all passengers and crew.
Rubbergate
He 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.After he pleaded guilty to violations of federal campaign finance laws, Hubbard served two years in prison from 1995 to 1997. His wife Carol Brown Hubbard, was convicted of using her husbands' congressional aides to work on her campaign for Congress. Which failed.She was sentenced to five years' probation.
Post-congressional campaigns
In 2006 and 2008, Mr. Hubbard was unsuccessful in attempts to seek election to the Kentucky Senate. He lost by only 58 votes in the 2006 race.
Hubbard announced that he was changing his party affiliation to Republican, due to developments in the Democratic Party in recent years.
Legal career
Hubbard graduated from Georgetown College in 1959 and from the University of Louisville law school in 1962. In 1967, he was elected to serve in the Kentucky Senate.
During a grandparent's visitation case, Hubbard mailed a photograph of the opposing counsel and her wife with a homophobic slur written on it. The fallout from that incident resulted in five counts of misconduct including lying under oath about the incident. The Kentucky Supreme Court suspended him from the practice of law for sixty days.
