| Theodore Gaillard Hunt | |
| State1: | Louisiana |
| District1: | 2nd |
| Term1: | March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855 |
| Preceded1: | Joseph Aristide Landry |
| Succeeded1: | Miles Taylor |
| Office2: | Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives |
| Term2: | 1837-1853 |
| Birth Date: | October 23, 1805 |
| Birth Place: | Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Death Place: | New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Party: | Whig Know Nothing |
Theodore Gaillard Hunt (October 23, 1805 - November 15, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. From 1853 to 1855, he served one term as a Whig.
In 1854, he ran for re-election and lost as a candidate of the American (Know-Nothing) Party.[1]
Hunt was born in Charleston, South Carolina. In addition to being a member of Congress, Hunt was district attorney for New Orleans, member of the state House of Representative for sixteen years, and later a judge. During his tenure in congress he is notable as one of the few Southerners to have opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
During the American Civil War, Hunt was the colonel of the rebel 5th Louisiana Infantry in 1861-62 and later a brigadier general in the Louisiana militia. After New Orleans fell into Union hands, Hunt, who had opposed secession, resigned from the Confederate Army and became Adjutant General of Union Louisiana.[2]
He died on November 15, 1893, at the age of 88.