Irvin Leland Hunt Brigadier General, United States Army |
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Hunt of Califfornia
Appointed from California, Cadet, United States Military Academy, 15 June 1895 (24) Second Lieutenant, 19th U. S. Infantry, 15 February 1899 First Lieutenant, 5th U. S. Infantry, 1 June 1900 Transferred to the 19th U. S. Infantry, 29 June 1901 Ivan Leland Hunt was born in California in 1899. He married Annie Butler shortly after graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1899 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry. He spent the next 3 years in Puerto Rico and the Philippines and was promoted to First Lieutenant. In 1903, Hunt returned to West Point as an
assistant professor of Law and History from 1903-1907. He wrote a pamphlet
of instruction on the historical background of the Constitution and made
several trips abroad on confidential missions for the government. He had
a deep love of history and the philosophy of war and had
He transferred to the Judge Advocate General’s Department in 1916 to conduct a study of the military government’s intervention in Mexico. Before that, he was stationed in the Philippines; traveled to Japan, Korea, and China; and worked with the War Department in the Bureau of Insular Affairs. He transferred to the Quartermaster Corps and then graduated from the Army War College. He died unexpectedly in 1934 at the age of
56 at Walter Reed General Hospital and is buried at Arlington National
Cemetery.
HUNT, IRVIN L COL QMC GSC US ARMY DATE OF DEATH: 08/21/1933 BURIED AT: SECTION 7 SITE 19071 ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY HUNT, ANNIE BE W/O IRVIN L
Posted: 23 December 2001 Updated: 7 March 2003 Updated: 15 September 2006 |
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