Ward Hunt
| Ward Hunt | |
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
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In office December 11, 1872 – January 27, 1882 |
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| Nominated by | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Preceded by | Samuel Nelson |
| Succeeded by | Samuel Blatchford |
| Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals | |
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In office January 12, 1868 – December 31, 1869 |
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| Preceded by | William Wright |
| Succeeded by | Robert Earl |
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June 14, 1810 Utica, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 24, 1886 (aged 75) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party |
Democratic (Before 1848) Free Soil (1848-1854) Republican (1868–1886) |
| Alma mater |
Union College Litchfield Law School |
Ward Hunt (June 14, 1810 – March 24, 1886), was an American jurist and politician. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1868 to 1869, and an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1872 to 1882.
He was the son of Montgomery Hunt, long-time Cashier of the Bank of Utica. He was a classmate of Horatio Seymour at the Oxford and Geneva Academies, and graduated from Union College in 1828, where he was an early member of the Kappa Alpha Society. Then he studied law with Juge James Gould at Litchfield Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut and with Hiram Denio in Utica, and was admitted to the bar in 1831.
He was a Democratic member from Oneida County of the New York State Assembly in 1839, and was Mayor of Utica in 1844. In 1848, he joined the Free Soil Party, and in 1855 he was among the founders of the New York Republican Party. He remained in private practice until 1865, when he was elected to an eight-year term on the New York Court of Appeals on the Republican ticket, to succeed to the seat held by his former law teacher and partner Hiram Denio. Hunt became Chief Judge in 1868 after the sudden death of Chief Judge William B. Wright. In 1870, he was legislated out of office, but was appointed one of the Commissioners of Appeals.
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