Andrew Murray Hunt (August 12, 1859 – December 8, 1930) was an American electrical and mechanical engineer who served on the

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during the First World War and was president of the

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in 1921 and 1922. His obituary in ''

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'' describes him as "nationally eminent".

Biography

Andrew Murray Hunt was born in

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, where his father, also Andrew Murray Hunt, was a physician; he had two brothers. He graduated from the

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in 1879. Hunt founded the Mare Island Naval Shipyard's chemical laboratory and in 1894, became chief of the Department of Mechanical Arts in San Francisco, while still serving in the navy. He then worked as a consulting engineer in that city, with projects including a power plant for

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. In 1915, he was appointed the head of the Peyton, Hunt Company, Inc. in New York. In 1915, during the First World War, he was appointed to the

, as a representative of the

, working in Washington, D.C. from 1917. He served as president of the

in 1921 and 1922. He died in

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on December 8, 1930.

References

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