Indiana General Assembly for the sessions of 1836–1837, 1842–1843, and 1844–1845, but lost for state representative in 1846 and 1850. He was a staunch Whig while that party maintained its organization, and in 1860 was an elector for John Bell and Edward Everett. After this he united with the Republican Party and became its earnest and sincere supporter. His bitter and unrelenting opposition to the Democratic Party often led him into unpleasant controversies. Fellow members of the same legislature, with whom Huckeby was more or less closely associated, regardless of political differences, were James D. Williams, William A. Bowles, Samuel Hanna, David Macy, David P. Holloway, and William Hayden English. Huckeby also corresponded with Robert Dale Owen of New Harmony, Indiana. From 1854 to 1856, he served as prosecuting attorney for the 3rd Indiana District Common Pleas Court, discharging his duties with marked ability, and for several years thereafter practiced his profession with vigor and success. For several years of the latter part of his life, from 1871 to 1884, he served as postmaster at Cannelton. The bent of his mind was decidedly political. He was a natural born politician. Politics was his meat and drink, and nothing so delighted him as the opportunity to engage in political discussion in which he was apt to engross most of the time. On the stump he was a formidable antagonist and his experiences in this respect has probably never been equaled in Perry County. His knowledge of the roads, streams and by paths, the ravings and hollows, the school houses and places of public resort in Perry county was surpassed by no one. His grandson, Thomas James de la Hunt, Jr. (1866–1933) wrote this of his grandfather, "He was a marked example of the Old School politician, violently unrelenting in many inherited prejudices, and always delighting to dwell reminiscently upon the political triumphs of those early years when–it was his favorite boast–he knew every man in Perry County, his politics, his religion, and the nighest way to his house." American Civil War Huckeby was a supporter of the Union during the American Civil War (1861–1865). In the 1860 presidential election, Huckeby's southern birth and conservatism allied him with the Constitutional Union Party, and he was placed upon the Bell and Everett ticket as elector for the First District of Indiana, to which Perry County then belonged. However, in this sentiment he was