William Henry Hunt (November 5, 1857 – February 4, 1949) was the governor of Puerto Rico, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Montana, associate judge of the United States Court of Customs Appeals and a United States circuit judge of the United States Customs Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States Circuit Courts for the Ninth Circuit.
William Henry Hunt
Born 1823 in Charleston, SC
Died 1884 in St. Petersburg, Russia
FJC ID: 3264
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
U.S. Department of StateMinister to Russia · 1882–1884- Secretary of the Navy1881–1882
- Private practice, New Orleans, Louisiana1844–1878
- State of LouisianaAttorney general · 1876–1877
- University of Louisiana Law SchoolActing professor of civil law · 1866
- Confederate Army lieutenant colonel1862
Appointments
- Court of Claims1878–1881 · Appointed by Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)Term ended: Resignation
Education
- Yale College
- Yale University
- Read law with Theodore Hunt and Randell Hunt, New Orleans, Louisiana1844