Move to Green Bay
Hudd moved to Green Bay,Wisconsin,in 1868 and continued the practice of law there. He served as city attorney of Green Bay in 1873 and 1874,and in 1874 was elected to the Assembly's First Brown County district (the City of Green Bay,and the Towns of Bellevue,Eaton,Green Bay,Humboldt,Preble and Scott) as a "Democratic Reform" candidate (the Reform Party was a short-lived coalition of Democrats,reform and Liberal Republicans,and Grangers formed in 1873 which secured the election of one Governor of Wisconsin [4] and a number of state legislators). Incumbent Morgan L. Martin,a former War Democrat turned independent who aligned himself with the Liberal Republicans in opposing the re-election of Ulysses S. Grant),was not a candidate. Hudd won 1,160 votes to 1,075 for Republican Hosmer Kellog Cowles. [5]
He was elected once more to the Senate,this time to the Second District (Brown,Door and Kewaunee counties) for the 1876-1877 term,as a "Democratic Reform" candidate,winning 4018 votes to 2036 for Republican George Grimmer. In 1877 he was re-elected as a Democrat (the Reform coalition having collapsed by then),with 1874 votes to 1593 for Republican State Representative William Fisk and 638 for Greenbacker B. F. Smith. [6] He was not a candidate for re-election in 1879,and was succeeded by Republican Speaker of the Assembly David M. Kelly.
Hudd served as a delegate to the 1880 Democratic National Convention,and was elected once more to the Senate in 1881,in a new Second District consisting solely of Brown County. Kelly was not a candidate,and Hudd took back the seat with 2152 votes to 1777 for Republican State Representative James Rasmussen. He was re-elected in 1884 for what was now a four-year term,with 3,585 votes to 3,087 for Republican Charles W. Day.
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