John Whitefield Hulbert represented Massachusetts in Congress prior to settling in Auburn. He was born in Alford, Massachusetts, on 1 June 1770 and graduated frm Harvard University in 1795. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1797. He practiced his profession in his native village, and served as a director of the Berkshire Bank in Pittsfield. He was elected as a Federalist to the United States House of Representatives, filling the vacancy in the Thirteenth Congress caused by the resignation of Daniel Dewey. He was re-elected to the Fourteenth Congress (1815-17), and was not a candidate for renomination in 1816.
Upon completion of his term in Congress, Hulbert moved to Auburn in 1817 and resumed the practice of law. He died in Auburn on 19 October 1831 and was interred in North Street Cemetery.
