John W. Hunter

John Ward Hunter (* October 15, 1807 in Bedford, New York, † April 16, 1900 in Brooklyn, New York ) was an American politician. In the years 1866 and 1867 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Ward Hunter was born about five years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Bedford, now part of Brooklyn and better known as Bedford Stuyvesant. He enjoyed a modest education. As an office worker ( clerk ), he was in 1824 in a grocery wholesale business in New York City and worked 1831-1836 in the Federal Customs Office in New York City. Between 1836 and 1865 he was Assistant Auditor at the Federal Customs Office. He was treasurer of the Dime Savings Bank in Brooklyn.

Politically, Hunter of the Democratic Party. He was born on December 4, 1866 in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of James Humphrey. On January 26, 1867, he was blamed for the use of unparlamentarischer language from the House of Representatives. Since he gave up for reelection in 1866, he retired after March 3 in 1867 from the Congress. He was in the years 1875 and 1876, the then mayor independent city of Brooklyn. In addition, he went back to his banking transactions. He died on 16 April 1900 in Brooklyn and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.