Howard J. Hunter, Jr. is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's fifth House district, including constituents in Bertie, Hertford and Northampton counties. A funeral director from Ahoskie, North Carolina, Hunter is currently (2003-2004 session) serving in his eighth term in the state House.
Howard W. Hunter, fourteenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was the first president born in the twentieth Century.
Howard W. Hunter was born November 14, 1907 in Boise, Idaho to John William Hunter and Nellie Rasmussen.
On May 30, 1994 with the death of President Ezra Taft Benson, Howard W. Hunter was sustained by the Twelve and set apart as President, Prophet, Seer, and Revelator of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Howard William Hunter (November 14, 1907 – March 3, 1995) was the fourteenth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1994-1995), and served the shortest amount of time of any Church president to date (nine months).
In 1985, Hunter was named Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve, in recognition of the infirmity of Marion G. Romney, who had succeeded as President of the Twelve by seniority; Hunter became full President on Romney's death in 1988.
Hunter became sick while president of the Quorum of the Twelve, and had major health problems for the remainder of his life, including a heart attack, broken ribs (from a fall at General Conference), heart bypass surgery, bleeding ulcers and a kidney failure that revived.
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