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Memucan Hunt

Full Name: Memucan Hunt
Birth date: August 7, 1807
Death date: June 5, 1856

Terms of Service

  • House, 5th Legislature
    11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
     

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

  • Memucan Hunt, burial in Montgomery New Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County. Includes portraits and death notice from the Fayetteville Semi-Weekly Observer, 7/10/1856. Find a Grave .
  • HUNT, MEMUCAN (1807-1856). Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Appointed brigadier general by President David G. Burnet in August 1836. Secretary of the Texas Navy, December 1838 to May 1839. Inspector general of the army and adjutant general in the Somervell expedition in 1842. Served briefly in the Mexican War. Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Death notice, "The Late Gen. Memucan Hunt," State Gazette (Austin, Texas), 7/19/1856, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

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