[5] Hunt was inducted on January 12, 1832 in a ceremony at the court house in which he received his oath from Judge T.M.
[1] Hunt was reelected to two more one-year terms in 1833 and 1834 during which the city was hit by a major cholera epidemic and Hunt established the city's first public school, Morton High School named after its sponsor William Morton.
[1][5] The Louisville Daily Journal wrote that Hunt was a "valuable member of society, and his death has thrown a deep gloom over Lexington".
[5] Historian Robert Peter wrote he died as a "future full of promise was opening to him" and that "few men have been more beloved in Lexington.
[6] African American volunteer militia officer Charlton Hunt Tandy was named after him.