Carleton Hunt (January 1, 1836 – August 14, 1921) was a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana.
He served one term as a Democrat.
Hunt was born in New Orleans and attended Harvard and law school at Tulane.
Prior to the Civil War he had been affiliated with the Constitutional Union Party.
He was a professor and ten-year dean of the law school at Tulane.
He served as a lieutenant in the Confederate artillery during the Civil War.
Carleton Hunt was the son of prominent New Orleans physician Thomas Hunt (1808-1867), who was one of the founders of Tulane University's medical school, and the former Aglae Marie Carleton (1816-1847).
He married Georgine Cammack; the couple had three sons, who became a doctor and two lawyers.