Theodore Gaillard Hunt

Theodore Gaillard Hunt (born October 23, 1805 in Charleston , South Carolina , †  November 15, 1893 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) was an American politician . Between 1853 and 1855 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Theodore Hunt was a member of a well-known family of politicians. He was a nephew of John Gaillard (1765-1826), who had represented the state of South Carolina between 1803 and 1826 in the US Senate . He was also an uncle of Carleton Hunt (1836-1921), who served in Congress for Louisiana from 1883 to 1885 . He attended the public schools in his home country. After completing a law degree at Columbia College , now Columbia University in New York City , and being admitted to the bar, he began working in his new profession in Charleston.

Around 1830 Hunt moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he became a district attorney. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Whig Party . Between 1837 and 1853 he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives . In the congressional election of 1852 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Louisiana , where he succeeded Joseph Aristide Landry on March 4, 1853 . By March 3, 1855, he completed a term in Congress that was determined by the discussions about the question of slavery in the run-up to the civil war .

Hunt became a judge in his state's first judicial district in 1859. During the Civil War he was Colonel of a unit out of Louisiana in 1861 and 1862. Later he was until the end of the war as Brigadier General in command of the Louisiana National Guard ( Adjutant General ), which fought on the side of the Confederate States . Hunt is no longer politically active. He died in New Orleans on November 15, 1893.

Web links

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

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