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Hunter, Morton Craig

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 5, 1825, in Versailles, Ind. In 1858 he was elected to the state legislature; and in 1860 was a presidential elector. In 1862 he raised the eighty-second regiment of Indiana volunteers, and colonel commanded it until the fall of Atlanta in 1864; and in 1865 was brevetted a brigadier-general. In 1866 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the fortieth congress; and elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a republican.