Jon Hinson

Jon Clifton Hinson ( born March 16, 1942 in Tylertown, Walthall County, Mississippi, † July 21, 1995 in Silver Spring, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1979 and 1981 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jon Hinson attended the public schools of his home and then to 1964 the University of Mississippi. Between 1964 and 1970 he was a member of the reserve of the Marine Corps. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. From 1968 to 1973 Hinson worked on the staff of Congressman Charles H. Griffin; after he was until 1977 for Thad Cochran, also a congressman from Mississippi, held the same post.

1978 Hinson was elected to Cochran's successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. During his first term in Congress Hinson fell for the first time in trouble. He had to deal with allegations of criminal at that time in the United States homosexuality. Nevertheless, he was confirmed in the congressional elections of 1980. The married Cynthia Hinson politician was arrested and indicted on February 5, 1981 for homosexual acts. He subsequently resigned as Congressman on 13 April 1981. The by-election due in the fourth electoral district of Mississippi won the Democrat Wayne Dowdy.

Soon after his resignation, Hinson admitted to being a homosexual. He was divorced and sat henceforth for more gay rights in society and in the military one. He left the state of Mississippi for ever and first lived in Alexandria (Virginia ), and then in Silver Spring (Maryland). Later, he was diagnosed with AIDS, which he also died in 1995.