Hunter on trade marks and on property tenure. Return- ing to Kentucky politics, he was the real, though not the nominal, manager of the Republican gubernatorial campaign of 1903, which was un- successful. At the same time, he was nominated by a Republican convention in the eleventh con- gressional district, to fill the seat in the na- tional House vacated by the death of Vincent S. Boreing, while D. C. Edwards was nominated by another convention in the same district and accepted by the district committee. The state committee decided for Hunter, however, and after a three-cornered contest, in which Hunter, Edwards, and John D. White, candidate of the "Law and Order" Republicans, all claimed the election, the House Committee on Elections awarded Hunter the seat. He supported the re- nomination of President Taft in 1912 and him- self sought the senatorial nomination but later withdrew. Hunter for a time owned the water and light company at Somerset, Ky., and constructed a trolley line there. Later he sold his interests and invested in mines in Torreon, Mexico, which had to be abandoned because of disturbances. His last years were spent in Louisville, where he died. [Papers of W. A. Hunter, Louisville; files of the Louisville Courier-Journal and obituary in issue of Nov. 3, 1917; S. P.^ Bates, Hist of Pa. Volunteers, vol. V (1871) ; Hearing before the Committee on Elec- tions, No. 2, House of Representatives . . . (1905); A. D. Albert, Hist, of the Forty-fifth Regt.tPa. (1912), p. 425; biog. sketches in Cong. Directory, 54 and 58 Cong. (1895 and 1904) ; Biog. Dir, Am. Cong. (1928) ; Appletons' Ann. Cyc., 1896, 1897, sub "Kentucky"; W. E. Connelley and E. M. Coulter, Hist, of Ky. (1922), vol. II.] W.C.M. HUNTER, WILLIAM (Nov. 26, 1774-Dec. 3, 1849), United States senator, minister to Brazil, was born in Newport, R. I. His father was Dr. William Hunter, a Scotch physician, who having avowed himself a follower of the ill- starred Prince Charles, the Pretender, found it discreet to leave Scotland after the disaster of Culloden, He came to Newport about 1752 and was evidently at once well received in that pros- perous community. He delivered a series of lec- tures on anatomy there in 1756. In 1761 he married Deborah, daughter of Godfrey Mai- bone, a wealthy merchant in the town, and Wil- liam was the youngest of their six children. The boy received his preliminary education tinder Robert Rogers, who conducted a well- known classical school in Newport. From this school he entered Rhode Island College (later Brown University), from which he was gradu- ated with honor in 1791, when not quite sev- enteen years old. It had been planned that he Hunter should follow his father's profession, and he was sent to England to study under a cousin, the celebrated Dr. John Hunter. Medicine, how- ever, made no especial appeal to the young man, and he soon turned his attention to the law. His immediate supervisor was Arthur Murphy, a famous classical scholar of the day. Through him, young Hunter was able to hear and meet some of England's greatest orators—Burke, Pitt, and Fox. He returned to America in 1793 and after further study was admitted to the bar in 1795. His abilities were promptly recognized In 1799 he was sent to the General Assembly of Rhode Island and continued as a member of the state legislature through reflections until 1812, acting in the last year of his office as speaker of the House. In 1812 he was chosen to fill out the term of United States Senator Champlin, who had resigned, and in 1814 he was elected to the Senate for another six years. Though a member of the Federalist party, he was never violently partisan, nor was he acrimonious in debate. Rhode Island as a state had made itself unpopular because of its stand on paper money, just previous to the adoption of the federal Con- stitution, Hunter's tact, ability, and eloquence did much to redeem its lost prestige. The fact that he favored the Missouri Compromise was not entirely pleasing to his constituents, how- ever, and he failed of reelection to the Senate, but on returning to Rhode Island again became a member of the state legislature for the years 1823-25. He served his college as trustee from 1800 to 1838. In 1834 President Jackson recalled him to public life by appointing him charge d'affaires to Brazil. Later, at the request of the young emperor, Dom Pedro, he was elevated to the po- sition of minister plenipotentiary, and served in this capacity until 1845, when, under President Tyler, a change of policies brought about his re- tirement Once more at home, he occupied him- self in literary and historical research, intend- ing to publish a work on the history and prog- ress of religious freedom, especially as exempli- fied by the founders of his native state, but he died before he could complete the task. On July 15, 1804, Hunter was married in New York by Bishop Moore, to Mary Robinson, daughter of William T. Robinson, a Quaker merchant of that city. They had eight children. Since Hunt- er was an Episcopalian, the marriage resulted in his wife's expulsion from the Society of Friends. IBiog, Cyc. of Representative U*%