Role Politician Name Robert Huber Battles and wars World War II | Children No children Succeeded by James Blanchard Political party Republican Party Republican Party | |
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Full Name Robert James Huber Born August 29, 1922
Detroit, Michigan, USA ( 1922-08-29 ) Resting place Memory Gardens Cemetery in Hope, Arkansas Spouse(s) Mary Pauline "Polly" Tolleson Huber (married 1952-2001, his death) Alma mater University of Detroit
Culver Military Academy
Yale University Died April 23, 2001, Troy, Michigan, United States Education Yale University, University of Detroit Mercy, Culver Academies | ||
Preceded by William S. Broomfield Service/branch United States Army | ||
Robert James "Bob" Huber (August 29, 1922 – April 23, 2001) was a Republican politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Life and career
Huber was born in Detroit, where he completed public school. He attended the University of Detroit Jesuit High School from 1935 to 1937 and graduated from Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, in 1939. In 1943, he received a Bachelor of Science from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Huber served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. Huber was a banker-businessman. From 1959 to 1964, he was the mayor of Troy, Michigan. He also served simultaneously from 1959 to 1963 on the board of supervisors of suburban Oakland County. He was a member of the Michigan Senate from 1965 to 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 the Republican nomination to the United States Senate from Michigan in 1970, 1976, 1982, and 1988, having been defeated each time by Lenore Romney, Marvin L. Esch, Philip Ruppe, and James Whitney Dunn, respectively. Lenore Romney was then defeated by the Democrat Philip A. Hart; Esch, Ruppe, and Dunn then lost to the Democrat Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
Huber was chairman of the board of Michigan Chrome and Chemical Company. He died in Troy, Michigan.
Mrs. Huber, the former Mary Pauline "Polly" Tolleson (July 10, 1923 – January 25, 2005), was a native of Oklahoma who was reared in Hope, Arkansas. She graduated in 1941 from Hope High School and in 1945 from Texas Woman's University (then Texas State College for Women) in Denton, Texas. She worked for American Airlines before her marriage in 1952. After her husband's death, Mrs. Huber returned to Hope. Over the years, she was active in the Republican Party and the Roman 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 interred at Memory Gardens Cemetery south of Hope. They had no children.