National Council on the Arts Presidential Appointment of Richard Hunt

In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Hunt, the first African American visual artist on the council. Hunt would become the fourth African American on the council after Marian Anderson, Ralph Ellison, and Duke Ellington.

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Lynden B. Johnson

President of the United States of America

To all who shall see these presents Greeting:

Know ye, that reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity and ability of Richard Hunt, Of Illinois, I do appoint him a Member of the National Council on the Arts for a term expiring September 3, 1974, and do anything and empower him to execute and fulfil the duties of that Office according to law; and to have and to hold the said office with all the powers, privileges, and emoluments thereunto of right appertaining unto him the said Richard Hunt, during the pleasure of the President of the United States for the time being.

In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent and the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the on hundred and ninety-third.