James B. Hunt Jr., North Carolina Governor Who Kept State Blue, Dies at 88

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James B. Hunt Jr., North Carolina Governor Who Kept State Blue, Dies at 88
Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. of North Carolina in 1982. He sustained the state’s Democrats as a political force for more than a quarter century, even as he lost a vicious Senate race to Jesse Helms in 1984.

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Hunt, JamesDeaths (Obituaries)North Carolina State UniversitNorth CarolinaPolitics and GovernmentGovernors (US)Helms, JesseGreensboro (NC)Raleigh (NC)
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