Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1915 — UNION B. HUNT DIED IN INDIANAPOLIS [ARTICLE]

UNION B. HUNT DIED IN INDIANAPOLIS

Noted Pythian and Former Secretary of State Passed Away at Age of 51.

Union B. Hunt, former secretary of state and for many years active in. the republican political world, died at his home in Indianapolis Monday. Mr. Hunt was twice elected secretary of state and made an excellent record. The office was never administered more ably or fileld by a more popular man with the people of the state. Mr. Hunt made for himself in his two campaigns for secretary the reputation of being one of the most effective campaigners of the state. An unusual gift of oratory and his forceful, decisive . way of speaking made his services always in great demand. Mr. Hunt was not only an able lawyer and an unusually brilliant politician, but one of the most striking figures in Pythian circles in the U. S. He became so popular in 1898 that he was elected grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Indiana. He served ’ until 1899, when he was chosen to be one of the five supreme representatives from this state. With his colleagues he represented Indiana at the conventions of the supreme lodge in Chicago, San Francisco and Louisville. He served four terms as supreme representative. In 1908 he was accorded one of the highest honors that lies in Pythianism to confer. He was made president of the insurance department of the supreme lodge, an office he held at the time of his death. s