Early Education and Education
The son of a lawyer, George W. Dupree, and his wife, Sarah Hunter, he attended Oberlin College, where he earned his bachelor of arts degree (summa cum laude) in 1942. Upon completion of his undergraduate work, he joined the United States Navy in 1942, and became a Lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve.
At the end of World War Two, Hunter Dupree married Marguerite Louise Arnold in 1946, having two children including the historian Marguerite Dupree and the harpsichord maker Anderson H. Dupree.
Hunter Dupree entered Harvard University, where he completed his Master's Degree in 1947, and his Ph.D. in 1952, having written his doctoral dissertation on Asa Gray, titled Asa Gray: The Development of a Statesman of Science, 1810-1848.
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