From 2012 to 2014, Hunt was a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates representing District 36 from 2012 to 2014.
In 2001, the FDA discovered that the equipment in Raelian-founded Clonaid's human cloning lab in Nitro, West Virginia[8] had been bought by Hunt, who wanted to clone his deceased 10-month-old son, Andrew.
He enlisted Brigitte Boisselier, a French chemist and Raëlian religious leader, to run a secret cloning research lab in Nitro.
[9][10] Following an investigation, Hunt made an agreement with the FDA-OCI to not clone his son within the United States.
In 2009 Hunt took his efforts to Canada where he has made 3 attempts at cloning his son via surrogacy, all of which ended in miscarriages[citation needed].