Henry Jackson Hunt (frequently called "Henry I. Hunt")[1] was a politician and businessman from Detroit, Michigan.
Henry Jackson Hunt was born in New York, the first son of American Revolutionary War colonel Thomas Hunt.[1] He arrived in Detroit around 1800 and went into the mercantile and[1] real estate business, in some cases in partnership with Lewis Cass.[2] In 1811,[2] he married Ann MacIntosh, daughter of Angus MacIntosh, a well-to-do fur trader[3] and "Earl of Moy."[2] The couple had no children,[4] but Hunt's brother Samuel named his son after Henry.[5] The younger Henry Jackson Hunt went on to become a brigadier general in the American Civil War.
The elder Henry Jackson Hunt held various political offices in the city, including Colonel of the militia (1800- 1815), County Court Judge (1815), City Assessor (1817), Trustee of the University of Michigan (1821), and in 1826 Mayor of Detroit.[1] Hunt died while in office, on September 15, 1826.[6]
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