Thomas Hunt (politician)

Thomas Hunt (15 September 1841 – 8 December 1934) was an Australian politician.

Born in Cappawhite, Tipperary, Ireland to John Hunt and Ann O'Brien, he arrived in Melbourne in May 1858 and settled in Kilmore, where he established Kilmore Free Press in 1865, later acquiring the Examiner. In 1868 he married Catherine Mary Flynn in Melbourne. He established several other country newspapers, but ultimately sold them all to become chairman of the Imperial Banking Company, suffering heavy losses. In 1874 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Kilmore, which was renamed Kilmore and Anglesey in 1877 and Anglesey in 1889. He was defeated in 1892 but re-elected in 1903, transferring to Upper Goulburn in 1904 for his final term, which ended in 1908. Hunt died at Kilmore in 1934.^[1]

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