HUNT, John Edmund, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Lambertville, Hunterdon
County, N.J., November 25, 1908; educated in the public schools of Hellertown
and Bethlehem, Pa., Newark and Trenton, N.J.; attended Newark Business School
for three years; graduate, New Jersey State Police Academy, Trenton, N.J.;
Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy, Washington, D.C.; Harvard
School of Police Science, Cambridge, Mass.; United States Army Intelligence
School, Harrisburg, Pa.; criminology consultant, New Jersey State Police,
1930-1959; served in the United States Army, 1942-1946, commissioned a second
lieutenant; served as Combat Intelligence Officer with Four Hundred and
Fifty-sixth Bombardment Group; awarded Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal with two
oak leaf clusters, Purple Heart, and Presidential Unit Citation with oak leaf
cluster; discharged with rank of major; lieutenant colonel, Military
Intelligence, United States Army Reserve, 1946-1963; elected sheriff,
Gloucester County, N.J., 1959, reelected 1962; elected to New Jersey State
senate, 1963, reelected 1965; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and to
the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; was a resident
of Pitman, N.J., until his death in Woodbury, N.J., on September 22, 1989.