Boaz, AL – Former Alabama Gov. Guy Hunt is being remembered for his service to the state and for his faith.
About 1,000 people attended a state memorial service for Hunt at a community college in Boaz on Wednesday.
GOP Gov. Bob Riley called Hunt a great Republican who was also loved by Democrats and independents. But faith came first in Hunt's life, Riley said, followed by his family.
Hunt was a Primitive Baptist preacher who, in 1986, was elected as Alabama's first Republican governor since Reconstruction. He was later accused on a state ethics charge and became the state's first governor forced by office by a felony conviction.
Republican speakers during the service said Hunt was falsely accused and wrongly convicted.
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