{{short description|American sports shooter}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Dean Hudnutt | image = Dean Hudnutt (1891–1943) at West Point in 1916.png | caption = At West Point in 1916 | fullname = | nickname = | nationality = | birth_date = {{birth date|1891|5|25}} | birth_place = Hanover, Michigan, United States | death_date = {{death date and age|1943|10|11|1891|5|25}} | death_place = New Haven, Connecticut, United States | height = | weight = | country = | sport = Sports shooting | event = | medaltemplates = | show-medals = yes }}

'''Dean Hudnutt''' (May 25, 1891 – October 11, 1943) was an American sports shooter.

==Biography== Dean Hudnutt was born in Hanover, Michigan on May 25, 1891.<ref name="sportsref">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hu/dean-hudnutt-1.html |title=Dean Hudnutt |access-date=January 11, 2015 |work=Sports Reference |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020041859/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hu/dean-hudnutt-1.html |archivedate=October 20, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> He graduated from Albion College with an A.B. degree in 1912.<ref name=register>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N1EaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA437 |title=Official Army Register |date=January 1, 1943 |page=437 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=April 10, 2023}}</ref> Hudnutt then entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in June 1912, graduating in June 1916 with a commission as a second lieutenant of field artillery.<ref name="Cullum 1920"/>

During World War I, Hudnutt served as temporary major in France. After the war, he participated in a pistol competition at Le Mans in May 1919 and then in the Inter-Allied Games at Paris. Hudnutt then returned to West Point as a mathematics instructor from August 1919 to December 1922. He graduated from the Field Artillery School Advanced Course in June 1926 and the Command and General Staff School in June 1927.<ref name="Cullum 1920">{{cite book |url=http://digital-library.usma.edu/digital/collection/p16919coll3/id/17533/rec/3 |title=Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York since its establishment in 1802: Supplement, 1910–1920 |date=September 1920 |volume=VI-B |page=1812 |publisher=Seemann & Peters, Printers |access-date=April 10, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://digital-library.usma.edu/digital/collection/p16919coll3/id/23452/rec/5 |title=Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York since its establishment in 1802: Supplement, 1920–1930 |date=March 1931 |volume=VII |page=1127 |publisher=R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, The Lakeside Press |access-date=April 10, 2023}}</ref>

Hudnutt competed in the 25 m pistol event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.<ref name="sportsref"/> He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in July 1937.<ref name=register/>

After graduating from the Army War College in 1940, Hudnutt became a professor of military science and tactics at Yale University in July 1940.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://digital-library.usma.edu/digital/collection/p16919coll3/id/20804/rec/4 |title=Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York since its establishment in 1802: Supplement, 1940–1950 |date=December 1955 |volume=IX |page=209 |publisher=The Association of Graduates, U.S. Military Academy |access-date=April 10, 2023}}</ref> He accepted a temporary promotion to colonel in July 1941.<ref name=register/> Hudnutt died in New Haven, Connecticut on October 11, 1943, and was buried at West Point Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114274592/col-dean-hudnutt-dies-in-new-haven/ |title=Col. Dean Hudnutt Dies in New Haven |newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |page=6 |date=1943-11-03 |access-date=2022-12-07 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

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