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Henry Jackson Hunt (politician)

American politician

Summary

American politician

Field	Value
name	Henry Jackson Hunt
image	Henry Jackson Hunt.jpg
order	2nd Mayor of Detroit, second charter
term_start	1826
term_end	1826
predecessor	John R. Williams
successor	Jonathan Kearsley
birth_date	1786
birth_place	Watertown, New York, US
death_date	September 15, 1826
death_place	Detroit, Michigan, US
spouse	Ann MacIntosh

Henry Jackson Hunt (frequently called "Henry I. Hunt") was a politician and businessman from Detroit, Michigan.

Henry Jackson Hunt was born in Watertown, New York, in 1786, the first son of American Revolutionary War colonel Thomas Hunt. He arrived in Detroit around 1800 and went into the mercantile and real estate business, in some cases in partnership with Lewis Cass. In 1811, he married Ann MacIntosh, daughter of Angus MacIntosh, a well-to-do fur trader and "Earl of Moy." The couple had no children. The younger Henry Jackson Hunt went on to become a brigadier general in the American Civil War.

The elder Henry Jackson Hunt held various political offices in the city, including Colonel of the militia (1800- 1815), County Court Judge (1815), City Assessor (1817), Trustee of the University of Michigan (1821), and in 1826 Mayor of Detroit. Hunt died while in office, on September 15, 1826.

References

Silas Farmer. (1889). "THE HISTORY OF DETROIT AND MICHIGAN".
John Elliott Hunt. (1978). "The John Hunt Memoirs: Early Years of the Maumee Basin, 1812-1835". Maumee Valley Historical Society.
(1922). "The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922, Volume 2". The S. J. Clarke publishing company.
Robert B. Ross. (1907). "The early bench and bar of Detroit from 1805 to the end of 1850".
Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. (1884). "Pioneer collections, Volume 5". The Society.
(1907). "The government of the city of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan: 1701 to 1907, historical and biographical".

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