He entered private practice in New Orleans from 1844 to 1878.[1] He served as a colonel in the Confederate States Army in 1862.[1] He was an acting professor of civil law for the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University) in 1866.[1] He was Attorney General of Louisiana from 1876 to 1877.[1]
Hunt was married to Elizabeth Ridgely Hunt (d. 1864), daughter of Commandant Charles Goodwin Ridgely and the former Cornelia Louisiana Livingston (a granddaughter of Walter Livingston and Chancellor Robert R. Livingston). Together, Elizabeth and William were the parents of seven children, six sons and one daughter, including:[4]
Ridgely Hunt (1854–1916), a Lt. in the U.S. Navy.[5]
Thomas Hunt (1855–1933), who married Helen Jewett, a daughter of U.S. Representative Hugh Judge Jewett, in 1888.[6][7]
Livingston Hunt (1859–1943),[9] a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy who married Catharine Howland Hunt (1868–1963), a daughter of architect Richard Morris Hunt.[10][11]
Cornelia Ridgely Hunt (1861–1930), who married Dr. William Kelly Newton (1850–1909) in 1905.[12]
Gaillard Hunt (1862–1924), a historian who married Mary Goodfellow.[13]
After the death of his first wife in 1864, he remarried to Sarah Harrison Barker (1819–1908), a daughter of New York merchant John T. Adams, in 1866.[2]
He died on February 27, 1884, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire.[2] His body was returned to the United States and after a funeral at St. John's Church in Washington, D.C. He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington.[14][15] He was a member of The Boston Club of New Orleans.[16]
^ a b c d e f g h i j k"Hunt, William Henry - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
^ a b c"DEATH OF MINISTER HUNT.; HIS CAREER IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE --A MESSAGE FROM THE CZAR". The New York Times. February 28, 1884. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
^The United States Court of Claims : a history / pt. 1. The judges, 1855-1976 / by Marion T. Bennett / pt. 2. Origin, development, jurisdiction, 1855-1978 / W. Cowen, P. Nichols, M.T. Bennett. Washington, D.C.: Committee on the Bicentennial of Independence and the Constitution of the Judicial Conference of the United States. 1976.
^"MR. AND MRS.THOMAS HUNT". The New York Times. 15 April 1888. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
^Jewett, Frederic Clarke (1908). History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America; a Record of Edward Jewett, of Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and of his two emigrant sons, Deacon Maximilian and Joseph Jewett, settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1639; also of Abraham and John Jewett, early settlers of Rowley, and of the Jewetts who have settled in the United States Since the Year 1800. New York: The Grafton Press. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
^"JUDGE WILLIAM HUNT, PUERTO RICO EX-HEAD". The New York Times. February 5, 1949. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
^"REAR ADMIRAL HUNT; In Service for 42 Years -- Saw Action in Spanish War". The New York Times. January 19, 1943. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
^"In Honor of Livingston Hunt". The New York Times. June 23, 1892. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
^TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (February 26, 1953). "LIVINGSTON HUNT JR". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
^"DR. WM. KELLY NEWTON DEAD. Former Health Officer of This City and Prominent Paterson Physician". The New York Times. December 21, 1909. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
^"GAILLARD HUNT IS DEAD.; Prepared History of the World War for State Department". The New York Times. March 21, 1924. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
^"THE LATE MINISTER HUNT'S BURIAL". The New York Times. April 7, 1884. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
^"Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, D.C. (Van Ness) - Lot 163 East" (PDF). oakhillcemeterydc.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-03-02. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
^"History of the Boston club, organized in 1841, by Stuart O. Landry".
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