13 Facts About Jesse Hunt

Jesse Hunt was Mayor of Baltimore from November 1832 to August 11,1835.

Jesse Hunt resigned office following a banking crisis in which, as a director of the failed bank, he was personally implicated.

Jesse Hunt was a descendant of a pioneer family of Calvert County.

Jesse Hunt's father moved from Calvert County to Green Spring Valley in 1760.

Jesse Hunt later became a lieutenant and resigned his commission in 1822.

In 1815, Jesse Hunt started to work in the saddlery and harness-making business.

Jesse Hunt was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1829,1830 and 1831.

In 1834, the Bank of Maryland, of which Jesse Hunt was a director, experienced a liquidity crisis and collapsed.

Jesse Hunt attempted to protect his colleague's home, but was unable to prevent the destruction of that and many other bank directors' homes, including - eventually - his own.

Jesse Hunt, having lost control of the city, resigned five days later, on August 11,1835.

Jesse Hunt became the first president of Eutaw Savings Bank and served in that position until 1871.

Jesse Hunt died on December 8,1872, at his home in Baltimore.

Jesse Hunt was buried at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore.