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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—LouisianaHUNT, Carleton
(1836—1921)
HUNT, Carleton, (nephew of Theodore Gaillard Hunt), a Representative from Louisiana; born in New Orleans, La., January 1, 1836; attended the University Grammar School at New Orleans; was graduated from Harvard University in 1856 and from the law department of the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University) at New Orleans in 1858; was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced in New Orleans, La.; member of the convention of the Constitutional Union Party which met in Baton Rouge, La., in 1860; appointed in April 1861 first lieutenant in the Louisiana Regiment of Artillery, Confederate Army; administrator of the University of Louisiana in 1866; appointed professor of admiralty and international law in the University of Louisiana in 1869 and later professor of civil law; dean of the law school of the university for ten years; chairman of the committee formed for the purpose of organizing the American Bar Association in 1878; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); resumed the practice of his profession in New Orleans, La.; city attorney 1888-1892; died in New Orleans, La., August 14, 1921; interment in St. Louis Cemetery No. 2.
Hunt, Carleton. Fifty Years’ Experience in Practice at the Bar
[!]. [New Orleans: J. G. Hauser, printer, 1908].
———. Life and Services of Edward Livingston; address of Carleton Hunt, May 9, 1903. On the occasion of the annual meeting of the Louisiana Bar Association, in the Chamber of the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana, New Orleans
. New Orleans: J. G. Hauser, 1903.
———. Life and Services of Henry Clay. Address of Carleton Hunt, January 12, 1901, on the occasion of laying the corner stone of the monument of Henry Clay, Lafayette Square, New Orleans, Louisiana
. New Orleans: L. Graham & Son, ltd., Printers, 1901.
———. World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition. Speech of Hon. Carleton Hunt, of Louisiana, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, May 8, 1884
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1884.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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