Richard Charles Hunter was a Nebraska

Nebraska

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 Democratic politician. Hunter was born in West Point, Nebraska

West Point, Nebraska

West Point is a city in and the county seat of Cuming County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,660 at the 2000 census.-History:West Point was first founded in the spring of 1857, when Omaha businessmen formed the Nebraska Settlement Association in order to find suitable townsites in...

. He moved to Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...

 with his family in 1885. He graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1909, Harvard Law School

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 in 1910, and the law department of Columbia University

Columbia University

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 in 1911, passing the bar the same year. He started his practice in Lincoln, Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska

The City of Lincoln is the capital and the second-most populous city of the US state of Nebraska. Lincoln is also the county seat of Lancaster County and the home of the University of Nebraska. Lincoln's 2010 Census population was 258,379....

 then moved back to Omaha in 1912.

He was elected both as a member of the Nebraska House of Representatives and as a judge of the Municipal Court of Omaha from 1915 to 1917. He unsuccessfully ran for state Attorney General

Attorney General

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 in 1920 and state Railway Commissioner in 1928. He was elected on November 6, 1934 to the United States Senate to fill the seat of Robert B. Howell

Robert B. Howell

Robert Howell was a Trial Attorney and a member of the Justice League. He was born in Fort Pierce, Florida. He graduated from Harvard in 2005. Afterwards he went to the Harvard School of Law. He moved to Miami , Florida in 2007....

 and served until January 3, 1935. He did not stand for re-election to the Senate. He ran again for the office of attorney general of Nebraska

Nebraska Attorney General

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, winning this time, and served from 1937 to 1939. He died in Tucson, Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

, and was interred in West Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Nebraska.

External links

• "Unsworn Senators", Time
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  , January 14, 1935. Article about Hunter and Rush D. Holt, Sr.