Ray Hunkins
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Raymond Breedlove "Ray" Hunkins (born ca. 1939) is an attorney
Lawyer
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, rancher, former law enforcement officer, United States Marine Corps
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 veteran
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, and the Republican
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 nominee for Governor of Wyoming in the general election
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 held on November 7, 2006. Hunkins resides in Wheatland
Wheatland, Wyoming
Wheatland is a town in and the county seat of Platte County in southeastern Wyoming, United States. The population was 3,548 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Wheatland is located at ....

, a small town in Platte County north of Cheyenne
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming and the county seat of Laramie County. It is the principal city of the Cheyenne, Wyoming, Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Laramie County. The population is 59,466 at the 2010 census. Cheyenne is the...

.http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2007/06/15/local_news_updates/18local_06-15-07.txt

Hunkins first sought the Republican nomination for governor in 2002 but was defeated by Eli Bebout
Eli Bebout
Eli Daniel Bebout is a veteran Wyoming politician and a member of the Wyoming State Senate. He represents District 26 from Riverton, the seat of Fremont County in the central portion of his state. A Republican, Bebout is a former member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, Speaker of the...

 of Riverton
Riverton, Wyoming
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, the seat of Fremont County in central Wyoming. Bebout secured the backing of former U.S. Senator Alan Kooi Simpson
Alan K. Simpson
Alan Kooi Simpson is an American politician who served from 1979 to 1997 as a United States Senator from Wyoming as a member of the Republican Party. His father, Milward L. Simpson, was also a member of the U.S...

 of Cody
Cody, Wyoming
Cody is a city in Park County, Wyoming, United States. It is named after William Frederick Cody, primarily known as Buffalo Bill, from William Cody's part in the creation of the original town. The population was 9,520 at the 2010 census...

, who issued strong attacks on Hunkins during the primary
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 campaign. Bebout defeated the more conservative Hunkins, 44,417 (49 percent) to 25,363 (28 percent). Two other candidates split the remaining 23 percent of the ballots. Bebout was then narrowly defeated in the general election by the Democratic
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 former United States Attorney
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 David Duane "Dave" Freudenthal
Dave Freudenthal
David Duane "Dave" Freudenthal , is an American politician who served as the 31st Governor of Wyoming. A Democrat, he was reelected to his second term on November 7, 2006, and announced on March 4, 2010, that he would not attempt to seek a third term as Governor.-Education and early...

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2006 election

Hunkins won a noneventual 2006 gubernatorial primary. In the general election, he was defeated by the incumbent
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 Freudenthal, who received nearly 70 percent of the ballots cast.

On June 14, 2007, Hunkins was among 31 Wyoming Republicans who filed his name with the Republican State Central Committee for consideration as the successor to U.S. Senator Craig L. Thomas, who died earlier in the month. Hunkins was not among the three nominees tapped by the committee. Freudenthal, under Wyoming law, selected state Senator John A. Barrasso, MD, of Casper
Casper, Wyoming
Casper is the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States.. Casper is the second-largest city in Wyoming , according to the 2010 census, with a population of 55,316...

as Thomas' successor.
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