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2 unusual facts about Hunter L. Hunt


Hunter L. Hunt

Hunt sits on the Board of Trustees of the Lyle School of Engineering at SMU, the Dallas County Community College District Foundation (where he is also Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Bill J. Priest Institute for Economic Development), the Circle Ten Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Bullock Texas State History Museum and the All Stars Project.

Ray Lee Hunt

He is married, and has five children, including his son, Hunter L. Hunt, who is CEO of Hunt Consolidated Energy.


Alfred E. Hunt

His career would eventually take him to Pittsburgh doing metallurgical work for the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, which he would acquire in partnership with the young chemist, George Hubbard Clapp, in 1887.

The process for aluminum separation discovered by Hall, called the Hall-Héroult process because of its near-simultaneous discovery by Paul Héroult, provided a cheap and easy way to extract aluminum as a pure metal.

Alfred Hunt

Alfred E. Hunt (1855–1899), founder of the company that became the aluminum company Alcoa

Alpha Rho Upsilon

Other distinguished ARU alumni include author & reporter Gordon Weil '54, Congressman Tom Andrews '75, noted economist Larry Lindsey '76, opera singer Kurt Ollmann '77, and science fiction writer Walter H. Hunt '81.

Carrie Williams Clifford

Clifford's and her family moved to Washington D.C. around 1910, where she maintained friendships with W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Alain Locke, and hosted regular Sunday evening gatherings with persons such as Mary Church Terrell, William L. Hunt, Amanda Hilyer, Harry T. Burleigh, and Will Marion Cook.

Charles Martin Hall

After failing to find financial backing at home, Hall went to Pittsburgh where he made contact with the noted metallurgist Alfred E. Hunt.

Donald Hunt

Donald F. Hunt, professor of chemistry and pathology at the University of Virginia

Earls Colne Grammar School

In 1904 a master's house, boarding house, laboratories and other buildings had been added, towards the cost of which R. H. Hunt contributed more than £6,000.

George Hunt

George E. Hunt (1896–1959), medium-pace bowler who made over 200 appearances for Somerset

George W. P. Hunt (1859–1934), first Governor of the State of Arizona

George R. Hunt (1873–1960), right-handed batsman who made one appearance for Somerset

Harrison J. Hunt

Harrison J. Hunt was surgeon on the Crocker Land Expedition to the Arctic in 1913–1917, and the first to return to civilization with news of his fellow explorers, who had been trapped in the ice for four years.

Helen LaKelly Hunt

Helen LaKelly Hunt (born 1949) is a daughter of H. L. Hunt.

Henry A. Hunt

They also acted as Roosevelt's informal advisers on national issues related to African Americans and the New Deal.

Hiram P. Hunt

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress.

Hunt was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1837).

J. B. Hunt

Intermodal (JBI): The JBI segment began operations in 1989 with a partnership with the former Santa Fe Railway (now the BNSF Railway Company).

James B. Hunt

In 1842, Hunt was elected as a Democrat to the 28th United States Congress, and was re-elected to the 29th Congress, serving from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1847, the first person to represent Michigan's 3rd congressional district.

John S. Hunt, II

Garrett claimed after the primary that Hunt had received 93.1 percent of the votes of African Americans in nine selected precincts throughout the district, which then embraced a third of the state.

The new law, which enforced the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution led to the registration of large numbers of African-American voters throughout the Deep South.

Kenneth H. Hunt

Kenneth Henderson Hunt was Foundation Professor of Engineering at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and an expert in kinematics.

After the war, he worked in the oil industry until 1949, when he took a lecturership at the University of Melbourne.

Linda Darling-Hammond

From 1994-2001, Darling-Hammond served as executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, chaired by Governor James B. Hunt, a blue-ribbon panel whose work put the issue of teaching quality on the map nationally and led to sweeping policy changes affecting teaching and schooling.

Mount Pleasant, Iowa

Leigh S. J. Hunt (1855-1933) Superintendent of Schools in the 1880s.

Mr. California

Rockwell D. Hunt, named Mr. California by Governor Goodwin Knight in 1954

Norman Hunt

Norman J. Hunt (died 1984), American big band composer and conductor

Norman J. Hunt

He received his B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1947, and subsequently studied at the Paris Conservatory of Music under André Lafosse for two years (1950–1951) where he lived in Paris with his wife Evelyn Hunt and their son Steven Hunt.

Peter H. Hunt

His next project, Georgy, was less successful, closing after only four performances.

Peter Hunt

Peter H. Hunt (born 1938), American film, television, and stage director

Peter R. Hunt (1925–2002), film editor on many early James Bond films and director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Peter R. Hunt

Hunt then acted as second unit or action unit director until his directorial debut, the sixth James Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Ramsey, Illinois

H. L. Hunt, oil tycoon, inspired the 1980s television series Dallas; born near Ramsey

Robert M. Hunt

He was a charter member of the California Medical Society.

Robert W. Hunt

Once the American Civil War began in 1861, he joined the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, where he rose in rank from Private to Captain and was placed in charge of Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania during the fall of 1862.

Rockwell D. Hunt

Rockwell Dennis Hunt (1868–1966) was an eminent California historian, a professor at the University of Southern California and the University of the Pacific, and prolific author.

He taught economics at the University of Southern California starting in 1908, and served as dean of its graduate school from 1920 to his retirement in 1945.

Roger L. Hunt

Roger L. Hunt (born 1942) is a Senior United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.

Seeking a Sanctuary

Stephen Hunt, Journal of Religious History, 32:1 (March 2008), p123–124 (full text available through ATLA)

W. M. Hunt

During his time as director of photography at Ricco/Maresca gallery and as former curator at Hasted Hunt, W.M. Hunt debuted and represented artists including Wilson Bentley, Elinor Carucci, Luc Delahaye, Jean-Paul Goude, Lisette Model, Erwin Olaf, Eugene Richards, Martin Schoeller, Alex Webb, Joel-Peter Witkin and others.

Willis B. Hunt, Jr.

Nominated by President Bill Clinton on January 23, 1995 to replace Horace Ward, he was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 24, 1995, and received his commission on the same day.


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