1. Jon Clifton Hinson was an American politician who served as a Republican US representative for Mississippi's 4th congressional district from 1979 to 1981.
13 Facts About Jon Hinson
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Jon Hinson was the son of Clifton Ford Hinson and Lyndell Newman.
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Jon Hinson graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1964, and joined the United States Marine Corps Reserve, in which he served until 1970.
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In 1978, Cochran ran successfully for the United States Senate, and Jon Hinson was elected to succeed Cochran in the House.
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In 1980, Jon Hinson admitted that in 1976, while an aide to Cochran, he had been arrested for committing an obscene act after he exposed himself to an undercover policeman at the Iwo Jima Memorial near Arlington National Cemetery.
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Jon Hinson then denied that he was homosexual and blamed his problems on alcoholism.
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Jon Hinson said that he had reformed and refused to yield to demands that he resign.
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Jon Hinson won re-election on November 4,1980, with a plurality of 39.0 percent of the vote.
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Jon Hinson later received a 30-day jail sentence, which was suspended, and a year's probation, on condition that he continue counseling and treatment.
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Jon Hinson resigned on April 13,1981, just three months into his second term in the House.
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Jon Hinson lived the rest of his life in Alexandria, Virginia, and later Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Jon Hinson died of respiratory failure resulting from AIDS in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of fifty-three.
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Jon Hinson's ashes were buried in his native Tylertown, Mississippi, after a private service.