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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.
20 de jun. de 2016 · Wyoming Democrat Lester Hunt withdrew from his re-election campaign in 1954 after Republican senators Herman Welker and Styles Bridges threatened to expose his son's gay arrest. Hunt shot himself in his Senate office, sparking a scandal and a novel by Allen Drury.
8 de nov. de 2014 · Lester Hunt. Wyoming State Archives. Saturday, November 8, 2014. Lester C. Hunt, was born in Isabel, Illinois on July 8, 1892. His family soon moved to Atlanta, Illinois where he attended high school. Hunt worked his way through college as an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
27 de ene. de 2021 · Blog. Lester "Buddy" Hunt, Jr.—the Rest of the Story. January 27, 2021. By Rodger McDaniel. (Editor’s note: Rodger McDaniel’s article, “Baseball, Politics, Triumph and Tragedy: The Career of Lester Hunt,” was published this month on WyoHistory.org.)
Lester C. Hunt came to Wyoming in 1911 to play semiprofessional baseball for a Lander team. In 1917, he returned to Wyoming to establish his dental practice and rear his family in Lander. Hunt actively served in World War I as a First Lieutenant, Captain, and Major in the United States Army Dental Corps from 1917 to 1919 and was a Major in the ...
8 de mar. de 2023 · Larson’s book says only “On June 19, 1954, Senator Lester C. Hunt, overwhelmed by personal and political problems, committed suicide.” The truth was not generally known until 1983, when scholar Rick Ewig, later president of the Wyoming State Historical Society, published an article in Annals of Wyoming. By then Nathelle had died.
Wyoming schoolchildren are taught that Lester C. Hunt was the man who designed the bucking bronco on their license plates. They are taught that he was a governor, a senator and an all-around...
