Robert M Hunt^[1]

1928 - 1997  (69 years)

• Name	Robert M Hunt
  Born	7 Feb 1928	Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa, Michigan, United States   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1930	Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa, Michigan, United States   [3]
  Residence	15 Jan 1989	Cos Cob, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States   [4]
  Residence	1995	Cos Cob, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States   [5]
  Died	27 Dec 1997	Naples, Collier, Florida, United States   [2]
  Person ID	I17558566393	Master Tree | Isaac Bennett Descendants
  Last Modified	9 Aug 2010

  
  

  Father	Maurice E Hunt,   b. 22 May 1902, Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa, Michigan, United States ,   d. 13 Jan 1989, Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa, Michigan, United States  (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Ruth H,   b. 1 Jul 1907, Michigan, United States
  Family ID	F16053351343	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 7 Feb 1928 - Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa, Michigan, United States Residence - 1930 - Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa, Michigan, United States Residence - 15 Jan 1989 - Cos Cob, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Residence - 1995 - Cos Cob, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Died - 27 Dec 1997 - Naples, Collier, Florida, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S16144775071] Orlando Sentinel, http://www.orlandosentinel.com, 28 Dec 1997. Hunt, former president and chief executive officer of the Chicago Tribune Co., who went on to become president and publisher of the New York Daily News, died Saturday in Naples after a long illness. He was 69. He began his career at the Chicago Tribune in 1950 as a classified advertising salesman. Over the next 35 years, he moved up the ranks. In 1974, he was appointed president and general manager of the Chicago Tribune Co. and later that year became a vice president and director of the parent Tribune Co. In 1979, Hunt left Chicago to become president and publisher of the Tribune-owned New York Daily News. In 1984, he became president and chief executive officer of the new Tribune National Marketing Co. before he retired in 1985. [S8029498572] Social Security Death Index. [S560402625] 1930 United States Census. [S16144775070] Chicago Tribune, http://www.chicagotribune.com. Maurice E. Hunt, 86, the former Mayor of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., died Friday at War Memorial Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie, where he had been fighting cancer since Thanksgiving. Mr. Hunt was mayor for three terms in the 1940s. He attended the University of Michigan in the 1920s and was a lifelong Michigan resident. He was appointed Michigan`s public service commissioner, serving from 1951 to 1957, and headed the state`s Consumer Protection Division from 1964 to 1969. Mr. Hunt was one of the early planners of the Mackinac Bridge, which connects Michigan`s lower and upper peninsulas. He also was one of the founders of Lake Superior State University, a school established in 1946 in Sault Ste. Marie. Mr. Hunt`s son, Robert, was president of The Chicago Tribune from 1974 to 1979. He was publisher of the New York Daily News from 1979 to 1984 and retired in 1985. He lives in Cos Cob, Conn. Other survivors include two sisters, Joan Nilsson of Seattle, and Priscilla Fowler of San Clemente, Calif. Services for Mr. Hunt will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Hovie Funeral Home in Sault Ste. Marie. [S8072066253] U.S. Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002.