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> | 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> |