The "Education Governor" Jim Hunt’s Lifelong Mission for North Carolina

Announcing his passing, his daughter, Lt. Gov. Rachel Hunt, called him her "hero," noting that he "devoted his life to serving the people of North Carolina, guided by a belief that public service should expand opportunity."A Political TitanJim Hunt was a farm boy from Wilson County who became the only governor in North Carolina history to be elected to four terms (1977–1985 and 1993–2001). His career spanned nearly a quarter-century of the state's most rapid modernization. He didn't just hold th