Ernest Charles James Hunter (17 November 1862 – 14 August 1944) was a sharebroker and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

[2] He arrived in Rockhampton in 1871 and then in Maryborough where he worked as a printer for the Wide Bay News before heading for the gold fields of Gympie, Charters Towers, Croydon, and Etheridge.

Hunter was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the member for Burke in 1888[1] but was declared insolvent in 1890 and forfeited his seat.

[3] After he left politics, Hunter established a fruit pulp and molasses business in Cairns where he was also at one time a publican and auctioneer.

[1] His daughter, Elsie Dorothy Hunter, married future Premier of Western Australia Frank Wise in 1922.