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By JOHN GOOLRICK

Hunter Andrews is one of the tew remaining members of the Virginia General Assembly who were there when I began reporting on the legislature in the 1960s.

Now Andrews, after 32 years in the senate of Virginia, will be departing to be replaced by a Republican who defeated him in November.

It is hard to imagine a Senate that does not have the daily intimidating presence of Hunter Andrews in its midst, lie was and is a man who never suffered fools gladly and whose acid tongue devastated many an opponent of legislation he favored.

Andrews inherited the mantle of chairman of the powerful Senate f inance committee from another legend, the late fdward Willey of Richmond, and also become majority leader in the Senate, lie skillfully used those two powerful positions to forge the kind of budgets and laws he wanted lor Virginia. I can think of no i i . - :. i -•:.i,..

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