 Hunt Downer

Major General Huntington Blair Downer, Jr., known as Hunt Downer (born April 28, 1946), is a Republican politician in the U.S. state of Louisiana who is the former assistant adjutant general of the state National Guard and the first ever director of the Louisiana Veterans Affairs Department.A former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Houma in Terrebonne Parish in south Louisiana, Downer ran for Governor of Louisiana in 2003 and finished in sixth place in the nonpartisan blanket primary.