Robert J. Huber

Robert James "Bob" Huber (August 29, 1922 - April 23, 2001) was a Republican politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Michigan.

Huber was born in Detroit, where he completed public school. He attended the University of Detroit from 1935-1937 and graduated from Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, in 1939. He received a bachelor of science from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1943. He served in the United States Army from 1943-1946. Huber was a banker-businessman. He was the mayor of Troy, Michigan, from 1959-1964. He also served simultaneously on the board of supervisors of suburban Oakland County, Michigan, from 1959-1963. He was a member of the Michigan Senate from 1965-1970.

Huber was elected from Michigan's 18th congressional district to the 93rd United States Congress, having served from January 3, 1973, to January 3, 1975. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974, the year of Watergate, having been defeated by the future Democratic Governor of Michigan, James J. Blanchard. He ran unsuccessfully for nomination to the United States Senate from Michigan in 1970, 1976, 1982, and 1988. He was chairman of the board of Michigan Chrome and Chemical Company.

Huber died in Troy.

Mrs. Huber, the former Mary Pauline "Polly" Tolleson (July 10, 1923 - January 25, 2005), was a native of Oklahoma who grew up in Hope, Arkansas. She graduated from Hope High School in 1941 and Texas Woman's University (then Texas State College for Women) in Denton in 1945. She worked for American Airlines before her marriage in 1952. After his death, Mrs. Huber returned to Hope. Over the years, she was active in the Republican Party and the Catholic Church. She was survived by a brother, William E. Tolleson, Sr., of Hope and a sister-in-law, Jane Huber of Royal Oak, Michigan.

The Hubers are buried in Memory Gardens Cemetery south of Hope. They had no children.

References

* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hubbeel-hudnut.html#R9M0J19VZ The Political Graveyard]
* [http://www.hopestar.com/articles/2005/01/27/news/news4.prt Obituaries for Jan. 27, 2005] Online "Hope Star"

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