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Harold Guy Hunt was an American politician who served as the 49th governor of Alabama from 1987 to 1993. He was the first Republican to serve as governor of the state since Reconstruction.
1978 Alabama gubernatorial election
…Democratic Party and campaigned as a "born-again Democrat", won the Democratic primary in an upset over Attorney General Bill Baxley. He went on to defeat Guy Hunt in a landslide in the general election. Incumbent Democrat George Wallace was term limited and could not seek a third consecutive term; he later…
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Hunt being sworn in as governor during his first inauguration, 1987
Hunt with George H. W. Bush and Thomas J. Lee at Redstone Army Airfield in 1990