Alexander Cameron Hunt

Alexander Cameron Hunt
4th Governor of the Territory of Colorado
In office 1867–1869
Preceded by	Alexander Cummings
Succeeded by	Edward M. McCook
Personal details
Born	(1825-12-23)December 23, 1825 New York, New York
Died	May 14, 1894(1894-05-14) (aged 68) Denver, Colorado

Alexander Cameron Hunt (December 23, 1825 – May 14, 1894) was the fourth governor of the Territory of Colorado, serving from 1867 to 1869 as a member of the Republican Party.

Hunt was born in New York, New York on January 12, 1825. Soon after his birth his family moved to Freeport, Illinois, where he grew up and later served as mayor. Hunt traveled to California in 1850 to join the California Gold Rush and to the Pike's Peak Country in 1858 to join the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. Hunt was chosen as the judge of the Vigilante Committee of the Jefferson Territory. In 1861, Hunt was appointed U.S. Marshal for the new Territory of Colorado.

U.S. President Andrew Johnson appointed Hunt as the new governor of the Territory of Colorado on April 24, 1867. Hunt served as the territorial governor until June 14, 1869 when new president Ulysses S. Grant appointed his friend Edward Moody McCook to replace him.

Hunt was married to Ellen Elizabeth Kellogg, who died in Colorado in 1880. Their son Albert Cameron Hunt was an electrician who invented the wigwam.

Hunt died in Washington, D.C., on May 14, 1894, and is buried in the Congressional Cemetery with his second wife, Alice (died 1920), and her parents (Judge John Curtiss Underwood and his wife, Maria) and brother.

See also

• History of Colorado
• Law and government of Colorado
• List of governors of Colorado
• Territory of Colorado

External links

• The Governors of Colorado @ Colorado.gov
  • Biography of Alexander Cameron Hunt @ Colorado.gov
• Alexander Cameron Hunt at Find a Grave – Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
• Alexander Cameron Hunt at Find a Grave – cenotaph, Riverside Cemetery, Denver, Colorado