John T. Hunt Explained

John T. Hunt
State:Missouri
Term Start:March 4, 1903
Term End:March 3, 1907
Predecessor:Charles Frederick Joy
Successor:Henry S. Caulfield
Birth Name:John Thomas Hunt
Birth Date:2 February 1860
Birth Place:St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Death Place:St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Resting Place:Calvary Cemetery
Party:Republican

John Thomas Hunt (February 2, 1860 – November 30, 1916) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Hunt attended the common schools.In his youth, he was a professional ball player and umpire.He became a stonecutter and later a stone contractor.[1]

Hunt was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907). During his service in Congress, he was the only Representative to have a union card.[2] He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1906 and for nomination in 1908.He resumed the business of stone contractor.He died in St. Louis, Missouri, November 30, 1916.He was interred in Calvary Cemetery.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903. GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. November 9, 1903. 64 . Is a stone cutter by profession. . July 2, 2023.
  2. Gary M Fink. Labor's Search for Political Order: The Political Behavior of the Missouri Labor Movement 1890-1940. Missouri: Columbia, 1973.