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Lester Callaway Hunt, Sr. (July 8, 1892 – June 19, 1954), was an American Democratic politician from the state of Wyoming. Hunt was the first to be elected to two consecutive terms as Wyoming's governor, serving as its 19th governor from January 4, 1943, to January 3, 1949.
11 de ene. de 2021 · Lester Hunt was a dentist, governor and U.S. senator from Wyoming who rose from humble beginnings to political prominence. He was a wartime leader, a popular Democrat and a suicide victim whose legacy was tainted by his widow's cover-up.
8 de mar. de 2023 · Learn about the life and death of Lester Hunt, a popular Democrat who served as Wyoming's governor and U.S. senator. Find out how he faced McCarthyism, blackmail and personal tragedy in his final years.
20 de jun. de 2016 · Pearson alleged that two Republican United States senators – Styles Bridges of New Hampshire and Herman Welker of Idaho – had attempted to blackmail a fellow senator, Wyoming Democrat Lester Hunt, and that the threats led directly to Hunt’s suicide.
Sen. Lester Hunt, a Wyoming Democrat, shot himself in his Senate office in 1954 after facing pressure from GOP senators to resign over his son's arrest for soliciting. The incident inspired a best-selling novel and a movie about political scandals and blackmail.
2 de feb. de 2024 · In 1954, the Illinois-born Senator Lester C. Hunt—a former baseball player and war veteran who moved to Wyoming and then represented its people in Washington—felt he had run out of options ...
31 de ene. de 2023 · After Wyoming’s U.S. Sen. Lester Hunt took his own life in 1954, the details surrounding his death were largely kept from public view, thereby obscuring his legacy of public service. A resolution now before the Wyoming Legislature is intended to set the record straight and to catalyze today’s lawmakers to emulate the late senator ...
