Gov. Mary Fallin has appointed Secretary of State Mike Hunter to succeed Scott Pruitt as Oklahoma's attorney general.

Pruitt resigned the post last week after accepting the job of administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection agency in President Donald Trump's administration.

Hunter served just a few months as secretary of state under Fallin. Before that, he spent more than a year working as first assistant attorney general in Pruitt's office.

He also worked for Republican Gov. Frank Keating as an adviser and secretary of state.