Henry Jackson Hunt (Mayor of Detroit)

For his nephew, the Civil War general, see Henry Jackson Hunt.

For other people named Henry Hunt, see Henry Hunt (disambiguation).

Henry Jackson Hunt

Mayor of Detroit
In office 1826–1826
Preceded by	John R. Williams
Succeeded by	Jonathan Kearsley
Personal details
Died	1826 Detroit, Michigan
Spouse(s)	Ann MacIntosh

Henry Jackson Hunt (frequently called "Henry I. Hunt")^[1] was a politician and businessman from Detroit, Michigan.

Henry Jackson Hunt was born in New York, the first son of American Revolutionary War colonel Thomas Hunt.^[1] He arrived in Detroit around 1800 and went into the mercantile and^[1] real estate business, in some cases in partnership with Lewis Cass.^[2] In 1811,^[2] he married Ann MacIntosh, daughter of Angus MacIntosh, a well-to-do fur trader^[3] and "Earl of Moy."^[2] The couple had no children,^[4] but Hunt's brother Samuel named his son after Henry.^[5] The younger Henry Jackson Hunt went on to become a brigadier general in the American Civil War.

The elder Henry Jackson Hunt held various political offices in the city, including Colonel of the militia (1800- 1815), County Court Judge (1815), City Assessor (1817), Trustee of the University of Michigan (1821), and in 1826 Mayor of Detroit.^[1] Hunt died while in office, on September 15, 1826.^[6]

References

1 2 3 4 Silas Farmer (1889), THE HISTORY OF DETROIT AND MICHIGAN, p. 1032
1 2 3 William Stocking; Gordon K. Miller (1922), Clarence Monroe Burton, ed., The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922, Volume 2, The S. J. Clarke publishing company, pp. 1382, 1444
↑ Robert B. Ross (1907), The early bench and bar of Detroit from 1805 to the end of 1850, p. 10
↑ Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan (1884), Pioneer collections, Volume 5, The Society, p. 558
↑ "Henry Jackson Hunt". FindAGrave.com. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
↑ The government of the city of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan: 1701 to 1907, historical and biographical, 1907, p. 28

Political offices
Preceded by John R. Williams	Mayor of Detroit 1826	Succeeded by Jonathan Kearsley

Mayors of Detroit (since 1824)

Williams Hunt Kearsley Biddle Kearsley Williams Chapin Cook Chapin Trowbridge Mack Cook H. Howard Porter Bates Jones Pitcher Houghton Pitcher Williams Van Dyke F. Buhl C. Howard Ladue Chandler Harmon Hyde Ledyard Hyde Patton C. Buhl Duncan Barker Mills Wheaton Moffat Lewis Langdon W. G. Thompson Grummond Chamberlain Pridgeon Pingree Richert Maybury Codd W. B. Thompson Breitmeyer W. B. Thompson Marx J. Couzens Lodge Doremus Martin Lodge Smith Lodge Bowles Murphy F. Couzens Smith F. Couzens Reading Jeffries Van Antwerp Cobo Miriani Cavanagh Gribbs Young Archer Kilpatrick Cockrel Bing Duggan

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