Andrew Murray Hunt (August 12, 1859
– December 8, 1930) was an American electrical and mechanical engineer who served on the
Naval Consulting Board
The Naval Consulting Board, also known as the Naval Advisory Board (a name used in the 1880s for two previous committees),
was a US Navy organization established in 1915 by Josephus Daniels, the Secretary of the Navy at the suggestion of Thomas ...
during
World War I
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and was president of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
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in 1921 and 1922. His obituary in ''
The New York Times
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'' describes him as "nationally eminent".
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Biography
Andrew Murray Hunt was born in Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux City () is a city in Woodbury County, Iowa, Woodbury and Plymouth County, Iowa, Plymouth counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 85,797 in the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities in Iowa, fo ...
, where his father, also Andrew Murray Hunt, was a physician; he had two brothers. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy
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in 1879.
Hunt founded the Mare Island Naval Shipyard's chemical laboratory, and became chief of the Department of Mechanical Arts in San Francisco
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in 1894 while still serving in the Navy. He then worked as a consulting engineer in that city, with projects including a power plant for Claus Spreckels
Claus Spreckels (July 9, 1828 – December 26, 1908) was a German-born American industrialist in California and Hawaii, during the Kingdom of Hawaii, kingdom and Republic of Hawaii, republican periods of the islands' history. He founded or was i ...
. In 1915, he was appointed the head of the Peyton, Hunt Company, Inc. in New York.
In 1915, during World War I, he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board
The Naval Consulting Board, also known as the Naval Advisory Board (a name used in the 1880s for two previous committees),
was a US Navy organization established in 1915 by Josephus Daniels, the Secretary of the Navy at the suggestion of Thomas ...
as a representative of the American Society of Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, it is the oldest national engineering soci ...
, where he worked in Washington, D.C. from 1917.
He served as president of the American Society of Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, it is the oldest national engineering soci ...
in 1921 and 1922.
He died in Berkeley, California
Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland, Cali ...
on December 8, 1930.
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1859 births
1930 deaths
Naval Consulting Board
United States Naval Academy alumni
United States Navy officers
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