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Hunt, Ward

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born June 14, 1810, in Utica, N. Y. In 1838 he was elected a member of the assembly; and was reelected in 1839. In 1844 he was elected mayor of Utica; and in 1865 was elected a judge of the court of appeals of the state of New York, which position he held until 1872, when he was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States. He died March 24, 1886, in Washington, D. C.

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