W. Godfrey Hunter

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W. Godfrey Hunter

Whiteside Godfrey Hunter (born December 25, 1841 in Belfast , Ireland , †  November 2, 1917 in Louisville , Kentucky ) was an American diplomat and politician . Between 1887 and 1905 he represented the state of Kentucky several times in the US House of Representatives . He was also the American envoy to Guatemala .

Career

Godfrey Hunter attended public schools in his Irish homeland. In 1858 he came to the United States, where he first located in New Castle ( Pennsylvania settled). After a subsequent medical degree in Philadelphia and his license as a doctor, he began to work in this profession. During the Civil War he served as a doctor in the Union Army . After the war, Hunter moved to Burkesville , Kentucky. There he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1874 and 1878 he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives . In 1880 and 1892 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions , at which James A. Garfield and later Benjamin Harrison were nominated as presidential candidates.

In the congressional election of 1886 Hunter was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded John Edward Halsell on March 4, 1887 . Since he was defeated by the Democrat Isaac Goodnight in the elections of 1888 , he was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1889 . In 1892 another candidacy failed. In the elections of 1894 Hunter was then re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the third district of his state. There he replaced Isaac Goodnight on March 4, 1895. Until March 3, 1897 he could spend another legislative period in Congress. In 1896 he lost in the election to John Stockdale Rhea of the Democratic Party.

On November 8, 1897 Hunter was appointed as the successor to Macgrane Coxe to the American envoy in Guatemala; he was also accredited for Honduras . He held this office until December 8, 1902. After the death of the representative Vincent Boreing Hunter was elected in the eleventh district of Kentucky when the by-election was due as his successor in Congress. There he ended his predecessor's legislative period between November 10, 1903 and March 3, 1905. In 1904 he declined to run again. After his final resignation from the US House of Representatives, Hunter was involved in oil field development, among other things. He lived in Louisville, where he died on November 2, 1917.

Web links

  • W. Godfrey Hunter in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)