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'''Michael Gregory Hubbard''', known as '''Mike Hubbard''' (born February 11, 1962),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/15923/mike-hubbard#.Wf0fHrpFx2E|title=Mike Hubbard|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=November 3, 2017}}</ref> is a [[business]]man and broadcaster from Auburn, [[Alabama]], who served in the Alabama House of Representatives for District 79 in Lee County from 1998 to 2016. He was the House Speaker from 2010 until his automatic removal from the legislature on June 10, 2016, following his conviction of [[felony]] ethics violations. He was the House [[Republican Party|Republican]] Minority Leader from 2004 to 2010. From 2007 to 2011, he served two terms as the state Republican chairman in which capacity he was an automatic member of the [[Republican National Committee and engineered the largest fund-raising plan in the history of his state party. Under Hubbard's leadership, the GOP in 2010 secured a majority in the Alabama House for the first time since the end of [[Reconstruction]].

'''Michael Gregory Hubbard''', known as '''Mike Hubbard''' (born February 11, 1962),<ref name=pvs>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/15923/mike-hubbard#.Wf0fHrpFx2E|title=Mike Hubbard|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=November 3, 2017}}</ref> is a [[business]]man and broadcaster from Auburn, [[Alabama]], who served in the Alabama House of Representatives for District 79 in Lee County from 1998 to 2016. He was the House Speaker from 2010 until his automatic removal from the legislature on June 10, 2016, following his conviction of [[felony]] ethics violations. He was the House [[Republican Party|Republican]] Minority Leader from 2004 to 2010. From 2007 to 2011, he served two terms as the state Republican chairman in which capacity he was an automatic member of the [[Republican National Committee]] and engineered the largest fund-raising plan in the history of his state party. Under Hubbard's leadership, the GOP in 2010 secured a majority in the Alabama House for the first time since the end of [[Reconstruction]].

In 2016,  Hubbard forfeited his office when he was sentenced to four years in prison for  violations of state ethics  laws which he ironically had helped to write.<ref name=ballotpedia/>

In 2016,  Hubbard forfeited his office when he was sentenced to four years in prison for  violations of state ethics  laws which he ironically had helped to write.<ref name=ballotpedia/>