About the National Archives

Director, Center for Legislative Archives

Richard Hunt

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Richard H. Hunt has served as the Director of the Center for Legislative Archives since 2004, administering the staff responsible for the official records of the U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Senate, and legislative branch commissions. The Center supports the current business needs of Congress by returning records to committees, providing records assistance to House and Senate committees, congressional administrators, and the congressional community generally, and contributing to the exhibitions in the Capitol Visitor Center. The Center holds significant volumes of both textual and electronic records from congressional committees, commissions, and from its biennial web harvest of congressional web sites. The Center also provides archival services and programs to support researchers' use of the records and creates educational materials and programs to advance public understanding of the history of Congress and of representative government in America.

Hunt began his career at the National Archives in 1989 and at the Center in 1991, where he has served as assistant director, congressional outreach specialist, and archivist. Before coming to the National Archives, Hunt was a lecturer for five years at the University of California, San Diego and at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he taught courses in United States history. Hunt did graduate work in history at the University of California, San Diego and has a B.A. in History and Social Studies from the University at Albany, State University of New York.

 

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