{"id":4376,"date":"2015-05-13T10:53:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T17:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2018-06-27T14:54:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T21:54:14","slug":"hubbard-mike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4376","title":{"rendered":"HUBBARD, MIKE, 1962-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Media executive; political party leader;\u00a0state legislator.\u00a0 Born&#8211; February 11, 1962, Hartwell, Ga.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Susan Sorrells.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two. Education&#8211; University of Georgia, B.A. in journalism, 1983.\u00a0 Assistant Sports Information Director, Auburn University, 1983-1990;\u00a0 head of Auburn&#8217;s radio and television sports network, 1990-94; formed Auburn Network, Inc., media and\u00a0marketing company, 1994.\u00a0 Elected to Alabama House of Representatives from the 79th District, 1998; served as House minority leader, 2005-2010. Elected speaker of the House, 2010.\u00a0 Chairman of Alabama Republican Party, 2007-2010; led Campaign 2010, highly\u00a0successful Republican\u00a0fundraising effort. Removed from office, 2016, on conviction of ethics violations; sentenced to four years in prison.\u00a0 Remains free while case is on appeal (summer 2018).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mike Hubbard website<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Storming the State House.\u00a0 NewSouth Books, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Media executive; political party leader;\u00a0state legislator.\u00a0 Born&#8211; February 11, 1962, Hartwell, Ga.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Susan Sorrells.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two. Education&#8211; University of Georgia, B.A. in journalism, 1983.\u00a0 Assistant Sports Information Director, Auburn University, 1983-1990;\u00a0 head of Auburn&#8217;s radio and television sports network, 1990-94; formed Auburn Network, Inc., media and\u00a0marketing company, 1994.\u00a0 Elected to Alabama House of Representatives from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8304,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions\/8304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}