Henry Jackson Hunt (politician)

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{for|his nephew, the Civil War general|Henry Jackson Hunt}}

{{dablink|For other people named Henry Hunt, see Henry Hunt (disambiguation).}}

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| order = 2nd Mayor of Detroit, second charter

| term_start = 1826

| term_end = 1826

| predecessor = John R. Williams

| successor = Jonathan Kearsley

| birth_date = 1786

| birth_place = Watertown, New York, US

| death_date = September 15, 1826

| death_place = Detroit, Michigan, US

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| spouse = Ann MacIntosh

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Henry Jackson Hunt (frequently called "Henry I. Hunt"){{citation|title = THE HISTORY OF DETROIT AND MICHIGAN |author = Silas Farmer| year = 1889 |page = 1032|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yl06VbZ-RfwC&pg=1032}} was a politician and businessman from Detroit, Michigan.

Henry Jackson Hunt was born in Watertown, New York, in 1786, the first son of American Revolutionary War colonel Thomas Hunt.{{citation | title = The John Hunt Memoirs: Early Years of the Maumee Basin, 1812-1835 | author = John Elliott Hunt | year = 1978 |publisher = Maumee Valley Historical Society | page = 55 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mHLhAAAAMAAJ}} He arrived in Detroit around 1800 and went into the mercantile and real estate business, in some cases in partnership with Lewis Cass.{{citation|title = The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922, Volume 2|editor = Clarence Monroe Burton |author1 = William Stocking| author2 = Gordon K. Miller |publisher = The S. J. Clarke publishing company| year = 1922 |pages = 1382, 1444|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1RgVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1444}} In 1811, he married Ann MacIntosh, daughter of Angus MacIntosh, a well-to-do fur trader{{citation|title = The early bench and bar of Detroit from 1805 to the end of 1850|author = Robert B. Ross|year = 1907 |page=10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VNHhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA10}} and "Earl of Moy." The couple had no children.{{citation|title = Pioneer collections, Volume 5 |author = Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan |publisher=The Society| year = 1884 |page = 558| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7BMUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA558}} The younger Henry Jackson Hunt went on to become a brigadier general in the American Civil War.

The elder Henry Jackson Hunt held various political offices in the city, including Colonel of the militia (1800- 1815), County Court Judge (1815), City Assessor (1817), Trustee of the University of Michigan (1821), and in 1826 Mayor of Detroit. Hunt died while in office, on September 15, 1826.{{citation|title = The government of the city of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan: 1701 to 1907, historical and biographical| year = 1907 |page = 28| isbn = 9780598455529 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6vhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA28}}