Edwin Hunt

{{short description|American lawyer}}

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|name = Edwin Francis Hunt

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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|07|09}}

|birth_place = Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.

|alma_mater = Vanderbilt University

|occupation = Assistant Attorney General

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1981|04|11|1902|07|09}}

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| known_for = US checkers champion in 1934

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Edwin Francis Hunt (July 9, 1902 – April 11, 1981) was an American draughts, or checkers, player who spent most of his life in Nashville. He was US champion in 1934.[http://www.nccheckers.org/NCCA/US%20National%20Champions.htm North Carolina Checker Association page]

His career was as a lawyer and as such he gained recognition as an appellate advocate{{cite book|author=Alfred H. Knight|title=Tribulations and Trials: The Education of a Young Lawyer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aUrQeSpLVvcC&pg=PT48|date=November 2007|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-0-595-47281-9|page=48}} and rose to the rank of Assistant Attorney General.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tba.org/journal/building-justice |title=Tennessee Bar Association |access-date=2014-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055518/http://www.tba.org/journal/building-justice |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} He had studied at Vanderbilt University where he won the Founder's Medal twice.[http://www.jacksonsun.com/story/life/style/jackson-life/2014/08/01/two-lawyers-influenced-nashville-bar/13470189/ Two lawyers who influenced the Nashville Bar by Ed Bryant in the Jackson Sun]