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Senate Years of Service: 1949-1954 Party: Democrat
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HUNT, Lester Callaway, a Senator from Wyoming; born in Isabel, Edgar County, Ill., July 8,
1892; attended the public schools and Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill.,
1912-1913; graduated from the St. Louis University College of Dentistry in
1917; moved to Wyoming in 1917 and commenced the practice of dentistry in
Lander; during the First World War served in the United States Army Dental
Corps 1917-1919, rising to major; after postgraduate study at Northwestern
University in 1920 resumed the practice of dentistry in Lander, Wyo.; president
of the Wyoming State Board of Dental Examiners 1924-1928; member, State house
of representatives 1933-1934; secretary of State of Wyoming 1935-1943; Governor
of Wyoming 1943-1949; chairman of the National Governors Conference 1948;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1948; served from January
3, 1949, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 19, 1954; had announced that
he could not be a candidate for reelection; committed suicide in his Senate
office; interment in Beth El Cemetery, Cheyenne, Wyo.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Ewig, Rick. McCarthy Era
Politics: The Ordeal of Senator Lester Hunt.
Annals of Wyoming 55 (Spring 1983): 9-21; U.S. Congress.
Memorial Services for Lester Callaway Hunt. 83d Cong., 2d
sess., 1954. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1955.
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