Duncan D. Hunter is a California Congressman elected in November 2008 to the U.S. House of Representatives for his first term in Congress. Read his biography and see photos and a video below.
Duncan D. Hunter
California Congressman Duncan D. Hunter is one of the young, rising stars of the Republican party. Hunter represents San Diego, CA, for the 52nd Congressional District. Some of his conservative views have been in the news lately.
Rep. Hunter has criticized President Obama’s plans, or the lack of them, to close the Guantanamo detention facility and house detainees within the United States. He has been an out-spoken opponent of Obama’s budget, and acting on his campaign promise, he has introduced legislation to speed-up the completion of the planned border-fence-system. If you are a proponent of strong border control, you’ll want to view the video below and hear Congressman Hunter’s ideas for achieving that goal. In the November election, Hunter won 72 percent of the vote in his San Diego district, a city that has some of the most pressing border-safety issues in the Nation.
Duncan D. Hunter was born on December 7, 1976 in San Diego, California. He is 32 years old. His parents are Duncan L. Hunter and Lynne Layh Hunter. He has one brother, Robert Samuel (Sam) Hunter. Duncan was raised in San Diego and if his name seems familiar, perhaps it is because his father Duncan L. Hunter was the U.S. Congressman for San Diego’s 52nd District from 1981 until January 2009. Duncan D. Hunter replaced his father in that Congressional seat.
Duncan graduated Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, CA. He holds a bachelors degree in Business Administration from San Diego State University. During his college years, Hunter formed Jones Hunter Web Design with a college friend and worked as a programmer and website designer for high-tech companies to pay for his tuition. After graduation, the business was sold and he went to work as an IT business analyst in San Diego.
On September 12th, 2001, the day after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Duncan quit his job and, following in his grandfather’s footsteps, joined the Marines. He attended Officer Candidate School at Quantico and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in March 2002.
Hunter served in the 1st Marine Division during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He completed a second tour in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004 with Battery A, 1st Batallion, 11th Marines, and participated in Operation Vigilant Resolve. He was honorably discharged from active duty in September 2005, but remained in the Marine Corps Reserve. Lt. Hunter was promoted to Captain in 2006.
After his discharge, Hunter again entered the private sector and opened a residential home development company.
In a recent interview, Hunter said growing up in a famous political family was a “normal” experience for him:
There was nothing exceptional about growing up as the son of a congressman…
Duncan and his wife Margaret decided not to enter the political arena, saying “We just didn’t like the lifestyle…,” but after his Iraq tours and serving on the frontlines, he decided politics was the place he could bring about much needed changes for the military.
Shortly after announcing his bid to run for the U.S. Congress in 2007, Hunter was called back to active duty to serve in Afghanistan where he participated in Operation Enduring Freedom. While in Afghanistan, he was prohibited from campaigning and relied on his wife, Margaret, family and friends to stand-in for him on the campaign trail.
Afghanistan was Hunter’s third tour of duty in the Global War on Terror. He was again honorably discharged from active duty in 2007.
Congressman Hunter has stated that he and his father, former Congressman Duncan L. Hunter, have very similar conservative political views, and both see defense issues as the Nation’s most important issue. As a freshman California Congressman, Hunter serves on the House Committee on Armed Services, House Panel on Defense Acquisition, the House Committee on Education and Labor and the House Republican Study Committee.
When home in California, the young Congressman enjoys surfing, snowboarding, skiing, off-roading and motorcycles. Duncan D. Hunter and his wife, Margaret, live in Alpine, California. They have three children, Duncan, Elizabeth and Sarah.
Duncan D. Hunter (Photos)
Duncan D. Hunter, California Congressman (Photos)
Congressman Duncan D. Hunter (Video)
May 12th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
so being a congressman has become a seat much like that of a monarchy to be passed on to a 32 year old snot nosed rich kid whoes daddy paved him a road to replace him and helped pay for most of it I am certain. he’s still got milk around his mouth from suckling his mothers teet. somebody give that boy a hanky, and check him for a diaper change!
just another congressional contribution to the political out of touch people in american government looking out for themselves.
to quote one of your best presidents,
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
May 13th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Thats funny pushkin the same can be said obut our current president. And they both got the votes.
May 13th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
pushkin, his dad served honorably for a long time. He could not give his House seat to his son. His son won the seat with 72% of the vote.
You talk about giving the boy a hanky and a diaper change, and he’s had three tours in combat zones?
Duncan D. Hunter won’t be the one perverting this country with tyranny.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I had the opportunity to meet our new Rep. a couple of months ago, I am in his district.He was born here, and went to bat for our country in the military. This being San Diego and with such a high military presence and the fact that an Idiot ran against him he was a shoe in. This man is the type of individual we want in Congress.
May 14th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Looks sort of like a chipmunk.
I gotta say that’s pretty cool that he went and fought his war.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:30 pm
I was one of the idiots that ran against Duncan. I’m an idiot because I didn’t realize his friends would evict me for running against him 5 days into the ballot signature-gathering process, that his friends on the bench would obstruct justice for him, theat the Republican registrar would leave me off the candidate’s list all summer, that Duncan Hunter jr would run to the police before two debates where I had a constitutional right to speak against him, and have me arrested both times to avoid debating me. And I am idiot to not realize that this whole year would be used up fending off his Bonnie Dumanis’s attempt to put me in jail for a year for daring to speak out against Duncan Hunter jr. The Hunter creeps voted for the Fannie Mae bailout and then sent flyers out pretending they didn’t and preending they were after the fannie Mae fatcats. Then after his criminal associates made sure I couldn’t make the ballot, duncan Hunter sent out flyers saying he was the only ‘independent’ in the race (I was the only independent in the race). I don’t care if he was the first man to land on the moon, he’s still a lowlife scumbag who has absolutely no respect for the constitution at all. Besides that, he’s dumb as a rock. That’s why he has debate opponents arrested before debates. The are no words to describe what worms both Duncan senior and junior are. My secret trial is June 15th. The SD Pravda won’t tell anyonei’m being put in jail for speaking at a debate, because Duncan jr has to be protected at all costs. He’s a political bubble-baby. Bonnie Dumanis has stolen 5 months of my family’s life fighting a charge based on a statute that says it can’t be used to arrest someone at a debate. Nevermind, anyone who speaks out against the Hunters and their REAL ID sponsorship, their love of all things zionist, their votes for Fannie Mae must be destroyed, and the constitution will not stand in the Hunter’s way. p.s. the picture you have of Duncan Hunter has been edited so we won’t know that Donald Rumsfeld was in the group. Why can’t he admit he hangs with the traitorous neocons and that he does their bidding. Details of my secret trial can be found at my new website http://www.joeryanforsheriff.com. As you can tell from my new website, Duncan and his criminal associates hve me real scared. Joe Ryan