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The legal career of Ward Hunt peaked when he was appointed to the U.S.

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Birth: June 14, , Utica, New York.

grant in 1873. Hunt held a seat on the High Court for nine years, until January 1882. Although he was well liked and respected as a diligent lawyer and jurist, Ward's tenure on the Court was unspectacular and marked by a forced retirement.

Hunt was born June 14, 1810, in Utica, New York, to Montgomery Hunt and Elizabeth Stringham Hunt.

He studied at the Oxford Academy, in England and the Geneva Academy, in Switzerland.

Ward Hunt was born and raised in Utica, New York.

He was elected in as a Republican to the state Court of Appeals.

Ward Hunt, born on June 14, , in Utica, New York, to Montgomery and Elizabeth (Stringham) Hunt, was the third of eight children.1 Mrs. Hunt was the daughter.

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Hunt, a Jacksonian Democrat, was extremely active in politics.

In 1828 he graduated with honors from Union College, in Schenectady, New York. He attended law school in Litchfield, Connecticut. He returned to Utica to work in a local law office, and was admitted to the bar in 1831.

Hunt married Mary Ann Savage in 1837, and they raised three children until her death in 1845.

Eight years later he married Maria Taylor. With his partner, Hiram Denio, Hunt ran a successful law practice in Utica for thirty-one year