Judge ward hunt biography

Supreme Court of the United States Ward Hunt was.
Ward Hunt, born on June 14, 1810, in Utica, New York, to Montgomery and Elizabeth (Stringham) Hunt, was the third of eight children.1 Mrs. Hunt was the daughter.
Ward Hunt (June 14, 1810 – March 24, 1886) was an American jurist and politician.

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Justice Ward Hunt

Justice Ward Hunt joined the U.S. Supreme Court on January 9, 1873, replacing Justice Samuel Nelson. Hunt was born on June 14, 1810 in Utica, New York. He graduated from Union College in 1828 and then studied law in Utica and in Connecticut. In 1831, he was admitted to the New York bar.

Hunt started his career in private practice but soon entered politics. He served a term in the New York state legislature in the late 1830s and was elected Mayor of Utica in 1844. Hunt helped form the New York Republican Party in the 1850s. He was elected to the New York Court of Appeals in 1865. Three years later, Hunt became the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, although he held this position only briefly. After a judicial reorganization, he served as a Commissioner of Appeals from 1870 to 1872.

On December 3, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant nominated Hunt to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Senate confirmed him on December 11, and he took the judicial oath about a month later. Hunt rarely addressed constitutional issues, although his dissent in the early voting rights case

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Ward Hunt

US Supreme Court justice from 1873 to 1882

This article is about the U.S. jurist and politician. For the British politician and First Lord of the Admiralty, see George Ward Hunt. For other uses, see Ward Hunt (disambiguation).

Ward Hunt
Ward Hunt, by Mathew Brady, c. 1870-80
In office January 9, 1873 – January 27, 1882^[1]
Nominated by	Ulysses S. Grant
Preceded by	Samuel Nelson
Succeeded by	Samuel Blatchford
In office January 12, 1868 – December 31, 1869
Preceded by	William Wright
Succeeded by	Robert Earl
Born	(1810-06-14)June 14, 1810 Utica, New York, U.S.
Died	March 24, 1886(1886-03-24) (aged 75) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place	Forest Hill Cemetery Utica, New York, U.S.
Political party	Democratic(Before 1848) Free Soil(1848–1854) Republican(1868–1886)
Spouses	Mary Ann Savage (m. 1837; died 1846) Maria Taylor (m. 1853; died 1866)
Children • Ward Hunt was born in Utica, New York, on June 14, 1810. He attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, for one year, then transferred to Union College in Schenectady, New York, graduating with honors. In 1829, Hunt went to the Tapping Reeve School, a private academy in Litchfield, Connecticut, to study law. Among Tapping Reeve’s alumni were two Supreme Court Justices, Henry Baldwin and Levi Woodbury. After working as a clerk for a judge in Utica, he was admitted to the bar in 1831. He soon established a lucrative law practice out of his home office, and married Mary Ann Savage in 1837. The couple had three children before Savage died in 1845. Hunt won a seat in the New York State Legislature in 1838, serving one term, and was elected mayor of Utica in 1844. In the late 1840s, he broke with the Jacksonian Democrats over the issue of the extension of slavery and the annexation of Texas, both of which he opposed. Eventually joining the Republican Party, Hunt became a political ally of Roscoe Conkling. The alliance helped Hunt win a nomination to the US Supreme Court, sin Australia country biography jim Rax rapper biography Eon musk biography Gandhi biography india Thea proctor biography Copyright ©soybeck.pages.dev 2025