Ward Hunt

Ward Hunt ( born June 14, 1810 in Utica, New York, † March 24, 1886 in Washington, DC) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party, who was also a judge on the United States Supreme Court ( U.S. Supreme Court ).

Life

After schooling studied Hunt, who was a classmate of the future governor of New York, Horatio Seymour, first at Hamilton College and at Union College, from which he graduated in 1828. He then studied law at the Litchfield Law School, and in 1831 the admission of lawyers in the state of New York. He then founded as a partner with his college friend and later two-time President of the New York Court of Appeals Hiram Denio Denio & Hunt law firm and then worked as a lawyer.

A few years later he began his political career and in 1838 for the Democratic Party as a member elected to the New York State Assembly. In 1844 he was mayor of his hometown of Utica. After he switched from the Democratic Party to the Free Soil Party in 1848, he eventually became in 1856 a member of the Republican Party.

In 1865, he was himself a judge at York Court of Appeals and was finally from 1868 to 1869, its President (Chief Judge ).

On January 9, 1873 Hunt was U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant to Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court ( U.S. Supreme Court ), where he was the successor of Samuel Nelson. The Office of the Associate Judge held Hunt, who was paralyzed by a stroke since 1878, to 27 January 1882.

In 1873 he chaired the proceedings in United States v. Susan B. Anthony. In the trial of Susan B. Anthony, it was a matter that this was registered as the first woman in a presidential election in the United States as a voter and gave their vote in the election of 1872. It was therefore sentenced excitatory process in June 1873 for unlawful influence choice in a stir. During his affiliation with the U.S. Supreme Court, he was, among other things, in March 1880 the decision to process Strauder v. West Virginia, according to the general exclusion of blacks from juries is unconstitutional because it violates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

After his retirement from the judgeship he was replaced by Samuel Blatchford and buried after his death at Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica.

Publications

• Case of Susan B. Anthony, 1873