Lee Hunter (engineer)

Hunter was a 23-year-old St. Louis architecture student, found himself frequently confronted with car battery failure in his Packard convertible automobile.

With the help of a former Washington University in St. Louis electrical engineering professor, Hunter began developing a new design.

He put this new product on the market and during the Great Depression, the Lee Hunter, Jr., Manufacturing Co. sold the $497 Kwikurent[1] charger as fast as the company could make them.

After serving in both the United States Army Corps of Engineers and Ordnance Corps during World War II, Hunter returned to St. Louis in 1946 and reopened his business under the name of Hunter Engineering Company.

The Hall of Fame places Hunter among “individuals who have made a dramatic impact on the development of the automobile and the automotive industry”.