Hunt, Carleton
soldier, educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1836, in New Orleans, La. In 1860 he was a member of the convention of the constitutional union party at Baton Rouge, La.; and served as an officer in the confederate army. He was state administrator of the university of Louisiana in 1866. In 1872 and 1879 he was a member of the democratic state conventions of those years; and in 1879 was professor of civil law in the University of Louisiana. He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.