John G. Hutchinson

Guiher John Hutchinson ( born February 4, 1935 in Charleston, West Virginia ) is a retired American politician. Between 1980 and 1981 he represented the third electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Hutchinson attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1956, the West Virginia University in Morgantown. Between 1956 and 1958 he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

Between 1967 and 1971, served as Treasurer of the City Hutchinson Charleston, which he was the 1971-1980. After the death of longtime Congressman John M. Slack, he was elected as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington when made ​​necessary by-election in the third district of West Virginia. There he finished between 30 June 1980 and January 3, 1981, the legislature Unopened his predecessor. In the regular congressional elections of 1980, Hutchinson was defeated by Republican Mick Staton.

After the end of his short time in Congress Hutchinson was active in the private sector. He is still active as a businessman in Charleston.