Joe Hunt (politician)

Joe Hunt (* approx. 1910 in Kentucky , † after 1964) was an American restaurant owner and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Joe Hunt was born around 1910. His family moved to the Arizona Territory before 1912 . In the following years he attended schools there.

From 1941 to 1943 he was State Treasurer of Arizona . Hunt was the first state treasurer in the United States to invest state money in war bonds . The state of Arizona had $ 386,000 in war bonds in early September 1942  . The Arizona state constitution drafters put a term limit on the term of office in the state constitution, including the post of State Treasurer of Arizona. Therefore, Hunt could not be re-elected to this office and instead ran for the Arizona Tax Commission in 1942 (German about: Arizona Tax Authority). He won this election by a large margin. The rapid rise of the then only 32-year-old Hunt erred political circles in Arizona. From 1943 until his resignation in 1951, he worked as a Tax Commissioner (German: tax officer) in Arizona. Hunt also served on the Land Board and Farm Loan Board .

After his resignation as Tax Commissioner he operated restaurants in Scottsdale (Arizona), Yuma (Arizona) and La Jolla ( California ).

For a period in 1964, there was speculation that Hunt would run for the governor of Arizona. At the end of June 1964 he announced that he was not going to:

“I would like to thank my many loyal friends who expressed their enthusiasm and support. It is too late at this time to organize a campaign, and I do not have the time or money that would be necessary to catch up. "

“I would like to thank my many loyal friends who have expressed their enthusiasm and support. At this point it is too late to organize an election campaign. I don't have the time and money that would be necessary to catch up on my challengers. "

Most candidates at the time considered at least $ 100,000 a reasonable cost to campaign.

Trivia

In his youth, Joe Hunt was known as a softball and basketball player . He also played on the same baseball team as Arizona Governor Paul Jones Fannin .

Rose Mofford, then seventeen in 1939, became his secretary and remained so until 1945. She then worked for a year as the business manager of Arizona Highways . From 1947 to 1960 she worked again as a secretary for the Arizona Tax Commission. She later became governor of Arizona.

Hunt was married and had two children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Joe Hunt Seeking Nomination For Tax Commissioner , Casa Grande Dispatch, May 29, 1942, p. 3
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Joe Hunt Stays Out Of Governorship Race , Arizona Republic, June 30, 1964
3. ^ ^{A b c d} Joe Hunt Won't Seek Governorship , The Yuma Daily Sun, Jun 30, 1964, p. 1
4. ↑ Joe Hunt on the Our Campaigns website
5. ↑ Office of the Arizona State Treasurer - Arizona's 32 State Treasurers ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) 
6. ^ ^{A b c d e} Joe Hunt , Arizona Republic, September 6, 1942, p. 5
7. ↑ Nintzel, Jim: Two Republicans Attempt To Waltz Their Way Into The State Treasurer's Office , Tucson Weekly, August 6, 1998
8. ^ Veteran State Politicos Bow to Opponents . Article in Tucson Daily Citizen, September 10, 1942, accessed on ancestry.com on January 25, 2017
9. ^ ^{A b} James W. Johnson: Arizona Politicians: The Noble and the Notorious , University of Arizona Press, 2002, p. 89
10. ↑ Joe Hunt - resignment as tax commissioner , Arizona Republic, November 6, 1962, p 5
11. ^ Joe Hunt - restaurants in Yuma and La Jolla , The Yuma Daily Sun, Aug. 11, 1961, p. 2
12. ↑ ^{a b} Rose Perica Mofford in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved December 30, 2016.