Background
Henry Jackson Hunt was born in New York, the first son of American Revolutionary War colonel Thomas Hunt.
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The younger Henry Jackson Hunt went on to become a brigadier general in the American Civil War. The elder Henry Jackson Hunt held various political offices in the city, including Colonel of the militia (1800- 1815), County Court Judge (1815), City Assessor (1817), Trustee of the University of Michigan (1821), and in 1826 Mayor of Detroit. Hunt died while in office, on September 15, 1826.
