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Lester Callaway Hunt, Sr. (July 8, 1892 – June 19, 1954), was an American Democratic politician from the state of Wyoming. Hunt was the first to be elected to two consecutive terms as Wyoming's governor, serving as its 19th governor from January 4, 1943, to January 3, 1949.
Lester Callaway Hunt, né le 8 juillet 1892 à Isabel et mort le 19 juin 1954 à Washington, est un homme politique américain. Membre du Parti démocrate, il a été gouverneur puis sénateur du Wyoming.
10 juin 2024 · In 1954, Senator Lester Hunt was bullied and extorted to such an extent by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others that he committed suicide. Suicide and toxic politics are sadly features of our life together in Wyoming. Can we learn from the tragedy of Wyoming’s own, Lester Hunt? We must!
17 juin 2024 · Lester C. Hunt, a U.S. Senator from Wyoming, tragically took his own life on June 19, 1954, at his office in the Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. This year marks the 70th anniversary of this somber event that left a profound impact on Wyoming and the nation.
Democrat Lester Hunt, a charismatic wartime governor in heavily Republican Wyoming, won a U.S. Senate seat in 1948. There, he clashed with Sen. Joseph McCarthy. After Hunt’s son was convicted for soliciting homosexual contact, Hunt was blackmailed by Republican senators and committed suicide—circumstances that remained largely unknown for ...
20 juin 2016 · Rampant gay baiting, driven by McCarthy, Bridges, Welker, spurred senator’s suicide. In June 1954 Drew Pearson, the widely read and frequently feared author of a syndicated political column entitled “Washington Merry-Go-Round” published a sensational piece.
31 janv. 2023 · After Wyoming’s U.S. Sen. Lester Hunt took his own life in 1954, the details surrounding his death were largely kept from public view, thereby obscuring his legacy of public service.
