1. Washington Hunt was an American lawyer and politician.
12 Facts About Washington Hunt
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Washington Hunt moved to Lockport, New York in 1828 to study law, was admitted to the bar in 1834, and opened a law office on Market Street in 1835.
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Washington Hunt was First Judge of the Niagara County Court from 1836 to 1841.
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Washington Hunt was elected as a Whig to the 28th, 29th and 30th United States Congresses, and served from March 4,1843, to March 3,1849.
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Washington Hunt was elected New York State Comptroller by the State Legislature after the resignation of Millard Fillmore who had been elected US Vice President.
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Washington Hunt was Governor from 1851 to 1852, and was defeated for re-election by Horatio Seymour.
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Washington Hunt was the chairman of the 1856 Whig National Convention and supported his fellow New York Whig, former president Millard Fillmore for the presidency in that year.
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In 1860, Washington Hunt joined the Constitutional Union Party and supported its nominee for the presidency, John Bell.
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On June 13,1864, Washington Hunt was at Niagara Falls to confer with Confederate Commissioner Jacob Thompson.
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Washington Hunt became a supporter of President Andrew Johnson after the war, and supported Johnson's abortive "National Union" movement, serving as a delegate at the National Union Convention of 1866, which sought to join Democrats and conservative Republicans into a new party to support Johnson.
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Washington Hunt's brother was Major Edward B Hunt, a West Point graduate, who was killed in October 1863 while working with an experimental weapons system.
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Washington Hunt was buried at the Glenwood Cemetery in Lockport.