Former Alabama AG Jimmy Evans dies at 81
Former Alabama AG Jimmy Evans dies at 81 By WSFA Staff | February 15, 2021 at 9:21 PM CST - Updated February 15 at 10:41 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Family members of former Alabama Attorney General Jimmy Evans confirms he died Monday morning.
Family members say he died at the hospital following complications with pneumonia and a heart attack. He was 81 years old.
following complications with pneumonia and a heart attack.
The University of Alabama alumnus served as a city judge in Montgomery, Montgomery County district attorney, and state attorney general.
One of the things Evans is best known for was prosecuting former Gov. Guy Hunt. He was the first Republican governor elected after reconstruction after the Civil War.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Former Alabama Attorney General Jimmy Evans, who successfully prosecuted the state’s governor in an ethics case in the 1990s, died Monday. He was 81. His death was confirmed by Brian T. Gallion, the operator of Southern Memorial Funeral Home which is handling the funeral arrangements for the family. Gallion said he was not authorized to give a cause of death. Services will be held Monday. Evans was Alabama’s attorney.
Evans’s name would become forever linked with the Hunt prosecution that led to the ouster of the state’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction.
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