Hubert Haskell Peavey was a U.S. Representative

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 from Wisconsin

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Born in Adams, Minnesota

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, Peavey moved with his parents to Redwood Falls, Minnesota

Redwood Falls, Minnesota

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, in 1886.
He attended the public schools, the high school at Redwood Falls, and Pillsbury Academy, in Owatonna, Minnesota

Owatonna, Minnesota

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He pursued various activities in Nebraska

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, Kansas

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, and Oklahoma

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 from 1900 until 1904, when he moved to South Dakota and engaged in the real estate business.
He moved to Washburn, Wisconsin

Washburn, Wisconsin

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, in 1909 and continued the real estate business.
He served as alderman in 1911 and as mayor of Washburn in 1912 and 1920-1922.
He served as member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

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 1913-1915.
He became editor and publisher of the Washburn News in 1915.
During the First World War recruited Company D, Sixth Infantry, Wisconsin National Guard

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, and served as captain.
He resumed his former newspaper activities in Washburn, Wisconsin

Washburn, Wisconsin

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He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

Peavey was elected as a Republican

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 to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1935).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress.
He again engaged in the real estate business and also operated a fur ranch.
He died in Washburn, Wisconsin

Washburn, Wisconsin

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, November 21, 1937.
He was interred in Woodland Cemetery.

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