Richard C. Hunter

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Richard Charles Hunter (December 3, 1884 - January 23, 1941) was a Nebraska Democratic politician. Hunter was born in West Point, Nebraska. He moved to Omaha, Nebraska with his family in 1885. He graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1909; and Harvard Law School in 1910, and the law department of Columbia University in New York city in 1911 and passed the bar the same year. He started his practice in Lincoln, Nebraska then moved back to Omaha in 1912.

He was both elected to the Nebraska state house of representatives and as a judge of the municipal court of Omaha from 1915 to 1917. He unsuccessfully ran for attorney general 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 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, winning this time, and served from 1937 to 1939. He died in Tucson, Arizona, and was interred in West Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Nebraska.

Preceded by William H. Thompson(D)	United States Senator from Nebraska (Class 1) 1934 – 1935	Succeeded by Edward R. Burke (D)

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Class 1: Tipton • Paddock • Van Wyck • Paddock • Allen • Hayward • Allen • Dietrich • Burkett • G. Hitchcock • Howell • Thompson • Hunter • Burke • Butler • Reynolds • Hruska • Zorinsky • Karnes • Kerrey • Nelson Class 2: Thayer • P. Hitchcock • Saunders • Manderson • Thurston • Millard • Brown • Norris • Wherry • Seaton • Griswold • Bowring • Abel • Curtis • Exon • Hagel