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Joseph Clark Hunt Full Name: Joseph Clark Hunt Date of birth: August 25, 1857 Date of death: March 22, 1913 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Legislation Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District H 123 Jan 14, 1913 - Mar 22, 1913 33rd (1) (2)   Democrat Canyon / Randall   Armstrong, Bailey, Castro, Deaf Smith, Hale, Lamb, Parmer, Randall, Smith, Swisher H 106 Jan 10, 1911 - Jan 14, 1913 32nd (3)   Democrat Canyon City / Randall   Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Floyd, Gray, Hale, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lamb, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, Wheeler H 106 Aug 5, 1910 - Jan 10, 1911 31st (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)   Democrat Canyon City / Randall   Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Floyd, Gray, Hale, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lamb, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, Wheeler (1) L.C. Penry, sworn 7/21/1913, succeeded J.C. Hunt, died 3/22/1913. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005. (2) Mentioned in "Candidates for Speakership," 10/11/1912. Wichita Daily Times. (3) Canyon City, TX was renamed Canyon, TX in 1911. Handbook of Texas Online. (4) "Forecast of 32d Legislature: List of Democratic Nominees for Senate and House of Representatives: Elected for the Vacancies: Fifteen New Members of the Thirty-first are Chosen, Three of Them Senators," 8/6/1910, p. 11. Galveston Daily News. (5) 31st Legislature, 2nd C.S. - Oath of Office Administered to Hon. J. C. Hunt, 8/5/1910, p. 80. Indicates district number 101; however, Hunt's predecessor J. Richard Bowman was in district 106 in House Journal and Texas Legislative Manual, 31st Legislature. House Journal. (6) Notice of J.C. Hunt's intentions to run for Representative from the 106th District against Joseph E. Farrows. "Judge Hunt ran for this office two years ago against J. R. Bowman, but was defeated by a considerable majority," 2/17/1910, p. 12. Lubbock Avalanche. (7) J.C. Hunt, sworn 8/5/1910, succeeded J. Richard Bowman, resigned 12/1/1909. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005. (8) Assumed Democrat based on listing as Democrat in 32nd-33rd Legislatures. Texas Legislative Manual.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Resolutions and Journal entries 33rd Legislature, R.S., 3/26/1913, p. 1623. Resolutions - Memorial. Biographical Sketches "Legislative Halls Almost Forsaken . . . Death of Representative Hunt Shocking," 3/23/1913, p. 8; Obituary, "J.C. Hunt Dies in Austin: Representative from Randall County Had Been Ill Since Feb. 15 - His Is Fourth Death This Session," 3/23/1913, p. 10. Cause of death: cerebro-spinal meningitis; other members who died "succumbing to the same disease" were Representatives Neal [sic: McNeal], Killingsworth, and Kelly [sic: Kelley]. Galveston Daily News. Memorial services and tributes for Thomas McNeal, J.C. Hunt, Lee Killingsworth, and D.C. Kelley, including biographical sketches - 33rd Legislature, Sunday, 3/23/1913, pp. 1469-1485. D.C. Kelley born in 1856, p. 1475. House Journal. Report describing memorial services on the deaths of Representatives McNeal, Killingsworth, Kelley, and Hunt, 3/24/1913, p. 2. San Antonio Light. Joseph Clark Hunt, birth 8/25/1857, death 3/22/1913. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Includes biographical sketch/excerpt from The History of the Schools in West Paris 1884-1984, by Debbie Burks, 1984, p. 21: ". . .Mr. Hunt continued his political life when he moved to West Texas. He was elected to the state legislature there. He died while in Austin, Texas, for a legislative session." Betsy Mills & Ron Brothers, The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, On-Line Edition (Paris, TX: ReBroMa Press, 2008), TXGenWeb Project. "Judge Hunt Dead: Meningitis Victim," 3/24/1913, p. 4. Victoria Advocate. Photographs Photograph. J.C. Hunt, 33rd Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. J.C. Hunt, 32nd Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. J.V. Hunt, 31st Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 31st session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, north wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board. 32nd session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, west wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board. 33rd session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, west wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 33rd R.S. - 1913 Congressional Districts   Judiciary   Public Lands and Land Office   Reforms in Criminal Procedure   Revenue and Taxation   Roads, Bridges and Ferries (Chair)  State Asylums   32nd R.S. - 1911 Appropriations Subcommittee on the Medical Department of the State University   Constitutional Amendments   Judiciary   Prohibition Amendment Election held July 22, 1911, Investigate   Revenue and Taxation   State Asylums   Supreme Judicial Districts (Chair)  31st 1st C.S. - 1909 Commerce and Manufactures   Common Carriers   Judicial Districts   Public Lands and Land Office (Chair)

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