{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Carleton Hunt | image = Carleton Hunt (Louisiana congressman).jpg | caption = From the March 1890 edition of ''The Green Bag'' magazine | state = [[Louisiana]] | district = [[Louisiana's 1st congressional district|1st]] | term_start = March 4, 1883 | term_end = March 3, 1885 | predecessor = [[Randall L. Gibson]] | successor = [[Louis St. Martin]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1836|1|1}} | birth_place = [[New Orleans]], Louisiana | death_date = {{Death date and age|1921|8|14|1836|1|1}} | death_place = New Orleans, Louisiana | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | other_party = [[Constitutional Union Party (United States)|Constitutional Union Party]] }}

'''Carleton Hunt''' (January 1, 1836 – August 14, 1921) was a member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] representing the [[U. S. state|state]] of [[Louisiana]]. He served one term as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]].

Hunt was born in [[New Orleans]] and attended [[Harvard]] and law school at [[Tulane]]. Prior to the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] he had been affiliated with the [[Constitutional Union Party (United States)|Constitutional Union Party]]. He was a professor and ten-year dean of the law school at Tulane. He served as a lieutenant in the [[Confederate Army|Confederate]] [[artillery]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].

Carleton Hunt was the son of prominent New Orleans physician Thomas Hunt (1808–1867), who was one of the founders of [[Tulane University School of Medicine|Tulane University's medical school]], and the former Aglae Marie Carleton (1816–1847). He married Georgine Cammack; the couple had three sons, who became a doctor and two lawyers. Hunt died in New Orleans. He was a member of [[The Boston Club]] of New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu09362126&seq=327 | title=History of the Boston club, organized in 1841, by Stuart O. Landry }}</ref>

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== External links == {{CongBio|H000969|name=HUNT, Carleton|inline=1}} *[https://archive.today/20121214183757/http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=008283034 Harvard University Archives. Civil War papers of Carleton Hunt, 1861-1864.] *{{Find a Grave|7680892}}

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