Leigh Smith James Hunt was an American businessman. He is best known as the third president of Iowa State University (1885–1886), as publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1886–1893), and as founder and owner of the Oriental Consolidated Mining Company in Korea (1897–1903). He later operated a cotton plantation in Sudan until 1910. The community of Hunts Point, Washington bears his name.
- Occupation
- publisher, mine entrepreneur, cotton planter
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 11, 1855
- Died
- October 5, 1933
