[1] He served with the Royal Canadian Airforce in World War II as a Squadron Leader.
In addition to his career in politics, he established and operated Hunter Motors Ltd. in Athabasca, now a third-generation family-owned GM dealership.
[1] He was chosen leader of the Alberta Liberal Party at a leadership convention held in Calgary on January 16, 1962[2] but failed to win the provincial Athabasca seat in the Alberta legislature in the 1963 provincial election.
Hunter ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as leader for the second time in a by-election held in the Three Hills electoral district on January 20, 1964.
In later life, Hunter moved to Victoria, British Columbia where he died of a heart attack[4] in 1985.