 Hunt was a candidate for West Virginia Senate in 2000 and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives for West Virginia's 2nd congressional district in 2006.Hunt earned his BA from the University of Charleston, his MA from Marshall University, and his JD from the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia.In 2001, the FDA discovered that the equipment in Raelian-founded Clonaid's human cloning lab in Nitro, West Virginia had been bought by Hunt, who wanted to clone his deceased 10-month-old son, Andrew.