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After being defeated for the governorship by [[Fob James]] in 1978, Hunt took advantage of a split in the [[Democratic Party]] and won the election in 1986. <ref>http://www.archives.state.al.us/govs_list/g_huntgu.html</ref> Hunt was easily reelected in 1990. Coming into office when Alabama was nicknamed "tort hell", he pushed through major tort reform that capped big punitive damage verdicts by juries. He worked to attract more industry and tourists to the state, however had difficulty working with the Democratic controlled state legislator. During his second term he was forced to resign after being convicted of illegally using campaign and inaugural funds to pay personal debts. However, in 1998 he was proved innocent and a parole board granted him a pardon. <ref>http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AK&s_site=ohio&p_multi=AK&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB6C16C738D2FE9&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM</ref>

After being defeated for the governorship by [[Fob James]] in 1978, Hunt took advantage of a split in the [[Democratic Party]] and won the election in 1986. <ref>http://www.archives.state.al.us/govs_list/g_huntgu.html</ref> Hunt was easily reelected in 1990. Coming into office when Alabama was nicknamed "tort hell", he pushed through major tort reform that capped big punitive damage verdicts by juries. He worked to attract more industry and tourists to the state, however had difficulty working with the Democratic controlled state legislator. During his second term he was forced to resign after being convicted of illegally using campaign and inaugural funds to pay personal debts. However, in 1998 he was proved innocent and a parole board granted him a pardon. <ref>http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AK&s_site=ohio&p_multi=AK&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB6C16C738D2FE9&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM</ref>

Hunt spent the rest of his career preaching his religious beliefs untill his death from lung cancer on January 30, 2009 in [[Birmingham]]. In 1998, when asked how he would want history to remember him, Hunt said "The thing that would thrill me the most is if every fourth-grade student in this state who reads Alabama history someday will have the understanding that this is an honest governor who ran an honest administration and would not knowingly violate the letter or the spirit of the law." <ref>http://www2.dothaneagle.com/dea/news/local/article/former_ala._gov._guy_hunt_dies_at_75/57178/</ref>

Hunt spent the rest of his career preaching his religious beliefs until his death from lung cancer on January 30, 2009 in [[Birmingham]]. In 1998, when asked how he would want history to remember him, Hunt said "The thing that would thrill me the most is if every fourth-grade student in this state who reads Alabama history someday will have the understanding that this is an honest governor who ran an honest administration and would not knowingly violate the letter or the spirit of the law." <ref>http://www2.dothaneagle.com/dea/news/local/article/former_ala._gov._guy_hunt_dies_at_75/57178/</ref>

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