WASHINGTON HUNT
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NYS Historic
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Cemetery, People
- 325 Glenwood Ave., Lockport, NY 14094
- 43.181632, -78.709286
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Glenwood Cemetery
WASHINGTON HUNT
Inscription
WASHINGTON HUNT1811-1867. SERVED AS U.S.
REPRESENTATIVE 1843-1849,
NY STATE COMPTROLLER 1849
AND NY GOVERNOR 1850-1852.
BURIED HERE.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2020
Washington Hunt was born in Windham, Greene County, NY on August 5, 1811. After practicing law in Lockport, NY, he was an unsuccessful candidate for election to Congress in 1836. His luck change in 1842 when he was elected to Congress serving in the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses, from March 4, 1843 through March 3, 1849. Following this, Hunt went on to serve a short term as comptroller of New York in 1849 and early 1850 before his election as New York State Governor of NY State. Hunt held the governorship for two years, 1850-1852, before his defeat to Horacio Seymour. He died in New York City on February 2, 1867 and was buried here in Lockport’s Glenwood Cemetery, in Section 10, Lot 7.
