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H. Guy Hunt
Harold Guy Hunt (June 17, 1933 – January 30, 2009) 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.
== Early life ==
Hunt was born in Holly Pond, Alabama. He was the salutatorian of his high school class, but he turned down a college education. Instead, he enlisted in the United States Army and served in the Korean War. He returned to Alabama upon his discharge in 1956, where he operated an egg farm. He was ordained a Primitive Baptist minister in 1958, and also worked as a salesman for Amway. He married the former Helen Chambers in 1951 (deceased November 22, 2004); they had four children.
Hunt was active in the Republican Party from the days when the Democrats held near-total control of the state. He first ran for office in 1962, an unsuccessful run for the Alabama Senate. In 1964, he was elected probate judge of Cullman County. Lyndon Johnson's strong support for civil rights caused many Democrats to vote for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater that year, and Hunt was one of several Republicans swept into office on Goldwater's coattails. He was the youngest probate judge in Alabama. He was reelected in 1970, stepping down in 1976 to honor a promise to serve only two terms. He was state chairman of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaigns in 1976 and 1980 and chaired the state's Republican delegation at the 1976 and 1980 Republican National Conventions.
In 1978, Hunt was the Republican nominee for governor, but he lost in a massive landslide to then Democrat Fob James. In that election, Ann Bedsole, a Moderate Republican from Mobile, became the first Republican woman elected to the Alabama House of Representatives.
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