Carleton Hunt

Carleton Hunt (born January 1, 1836 in New Orleans , Louisiana , †  August 14, 1921 there ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Carleton Hunt was a nephew of Theodore Gaillard Hunt (1805-1893), who had also represented the state of Louisiana in Congress between 1853 and 1855 . The younger Hunt attended the University Grammar School in New Orleans and then studied at Harvard University until 1856 . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Louisiana , now Tulane University , and his admission to the bar in 1858, he began to work in his new profession in New Orleans.

In 1860 Hunt was a member of the short-lived Constitutional Union Party , whose federal convention he attended in Baton Rouge . During the Civil War he served as an officer in the army of the Confederate States . After the war, in 1866, he became the administrator of the University of Louisiana. At this university he also taught law in the following years. He was dean of the law school there for ten years. In 1878, Hunt chaired the American Bar Association's charter .

Hunt was now a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional election of 1882 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Louisiana , where he succeeded Randall L. Gibson on March 4, 1883 . Until March 3, 1885 Hunt completed only one term in Congress . After serving in the US House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer in New Orleans. Between 1888 and 1892 he was also the legal representative of this city. He died on August 14, 1921 in New Orleans and was buried there.

Web links

• Carleton Hunt in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Carleton Hunt in the database of Find a Grave (English)