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Lily (Hunt) Munton Family

Lily (Hunt) Munton

Iris Hunt

Dorothy Ellen Kelsey

Dorothy Ellen Kelsey

Dorothy Ellen Kelsey

Dorothy Ellen Kelsey

Dorothy Kelsey Hunt

Dorothy Ellen Kelsey

Dorothy Ellen Kelsey

Loie Hunt

Jeffrey Allen Quick

Julia E Smith Family

Julia E Smith

Joseph Henry Hunt relative

Newton Hunt

Walter Wiliam Durman

Albert Hunt

Phyllis Mary Kathleen (Lowe) Hunt

Nettie May Hunt

Ms Lisa Wright Harvey Hunt

Leta Hunt

Charles M. Hunt

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In 1903, in the year that Walter R Hunt was born, the United States Department of Commerce and Labor was created by President Theodore Roosevelt to control the excesses of big business. Renamed the Department of Commerce 10 years later, many departments concerned with workers were transferred to the Department of Labor at that time. Another spin-off, the Bureau of Corporations, became the Federal Trade Commission.

In 1935, he was 32 years old when the BOI's name (the Bureau of Investigation) was changed to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and it officially became a separate agency with the Department of Justice. J. Edgar Hoover, the Chief of the BOI, continued in his office and became the first Director of the FBI. The FBI's responsibility is to "detect and prosecute crimes against the United States".

In 1947, when he was 44 years old, on November 25th, the Hollywood "Black List" was created by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Ten Hollywood writers and directors had refused to testify to the Committee regarding "Communists" or "Reds" in the movie industry. The next day, the blacklist was created and they were fired.

In 1952, by the time he was 49 years old, on February 6th, George VI of England died from a coronary thrombosis and complications due to lung cancer. His eldest daughter, age 25, immediately ascended the throne as Elizabeth II and her coronation was on June 2 1953.

In 1991, in the year of Walter R Hunt's passing, on January 16th, Allied forces began the first phase of Operation Desert Storm. Saddam Hussein's forces had previously invaded the sovereign state of Kuwait and the focus of the operation was to remove his Iraqi troops from Kuwait. On February 24th, the ground war began. Within 100 hours, American ground troops declared Kuwait liberated.