Alexander Cameron Hunt

Alexander Cameron Hunt (December 23, 1825 – May 14, 1894) was the fourth governor of the Territory of Colorado, serving from 1867 to 1869 as a member of the Republican Party.

Hunt was born in New York, New York, on January 12, 1825. Soon after his birth his family moved to Freeport, Illinois, where he grew up and later served as mayor. Hunt traveled to California in 1850 to join the California Gold Rush and to the Pike's Peak Country in 1858 to join the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. He established a ranch which was later converted into Fort Weld. By 1860, he was an official of the Auraria Town Company. As a company leader, he presided over the meeting to combine Auraria and Denver. Hunt served as the territorial governor until June 14, 1869 when new president Ulysses S. Grant appointed Edward Moody McCook to replace him. McCook was a longtime friend of Grant and had resigned the position of delegate to Hawaii to return to Washington, DC to lobby for the governorship of Colorado.

Hunt died in Washington, D.C., on May 14, 1894, and is buried in the Congressional Cemetery with his second wife, Alice (died 1920), and her parents (Judge John Curtiss Underwood and his wife, Maria) and brother.