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Hunt was born in New Orleans, La. in 1836, the son of Dr. Thomas Hunt and Aglaié Carleton.
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Hunt was born in New Orleans, La. in 1836, the son of Dr. Thomas Hunt and Aglaié Carleton.
Until he was thirteen he was privately educated, then he attended the grammar school attached to the University of Louisiana (later Tulane University). In 1854 he entered Harvard College, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1856. He studied law in the office of his uncle William Henry Hunt, and W. O. Denegre, in New Orleans, and at the University of Louisiana, from which he received the degree of LL. B. in 1858.
In 1858 he was admitted to the Louisiana bar and began the practice of law in New Orleans. During his first year at the bar, as he liked to recall, he earned $500.
Like others of his family, Hunt had strong Union sympathies and supported the Constitutional Union party in Louisiana until the state seceded. Then, feeling that a successful revolution had been accomplished, he entered the Louisiana Heavy Artillery as first lieutenant in April 1861. After being on detached service as drillmaster, he returned to his company in time to participate in the fighting at Fort Jackson and at Fort St. Philip, where he was taken prisoner in April 1862. He was exchanged in August.
After the surrender of the forts he resigned his commission in October 1862 and lived in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore until the close of the war. He then resumed his law practice in New Orleans and shortly after his return was appointed one of the administrators of the University of Louisiana (1866 - 72). He served the University as professor of admiralty and international law (1869 - 79), then as professor of civil law (1879 - 83), and was dean of the law department from 1872 to 1883. In the latter year he took his seat in the Forty-eighth Congress to which he had been elected as a Democrat. He was a member of the committee on banking and currency, and on American shipbuilding. In the discussions on the floor he spoke frequently, his subjects ranging from steamship subsidies and French Spoliation Claims to the Nicaragua Canal and the Mississippi River improvements.
In 1879 Hunt declined appointment as justice of the supreme court of Louisiana. For many years he was an examiner of candidates for admission to the bar. He was one of the founders of the American Bar Association (1878), chairman of its committee on constitution, and chairman of its committee on legal education and admission to the bar. He was city attorney of New Orleans in Mayor Shakespeare's reform administration, 1888-92, in which capacity he argued successfully before the Supreme Court of the United States the case of Peake vs. New Orleans, which involved the liability of the city for drainage warrants. On March 19, 1908, in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of his admission to the bar, his colleagues presented him with a gold loving-cup. He continued the active practice of his profession until a few days before his death. For many years he had been recognized as the dean of the New Orleans bar. As a prominent citizen, he was frequently in demand as a speaker. His printed addresses reveal an interest in Roman law, and in general history; a fondness for Latin quotations; and a pardonable pride in his family connections. He died suddenly at his New Orleans home. He was survived by three sons; three daughters died in infancy.
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On December 24, 1860, he married Louise Elizabeth Georgine Cammack, daughter of Robert C. Cammack of New Orleans.