Memucan Hunt

Hunt was a Texas legislator and Secretary of the Texas Navy. He was born in North Carolina in 1807 and worked as a farmer there until leaving for Texas in 1836, arriving after the Battle of San Jacinto. He served briefly as a brigadier general in the Texas Army before resigning to accept an appointment by President Sam Houston to serve as an agent/minister to the US. He later served as the Secretary of the Navy under President Mirabeau Lamar and on the US-Texas Boundary Commission. After annexation he served one term as a legislator, served another commission working on the southwestern border of the US, and then worked at various business enterprises to attempt to recoup his financial losses from helping Texas. He died in Tennessee in 1856. Hunt County is named in his honor.