1. Young Timothy Hutchinson was born on August 11,1949 and is an American politician, lobbyist, and former United States senator from the state of Arkansas.
20 Facts About Tim Hutchinson
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Tim Hutchinson was raised on the family farm in nearby Gravette.
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Tim Hutchinson currently is a lobbyist and is a resident of Alexandria, Virginia.
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Tim Hutchinson is married to Randi Fredholm Hutchinson, an attorney in Washington, DC Tim Hutchinson was the first Republican to have been elected to the US Senate in Arkansas since 1879.
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Tim Hutchinson served in the Arkansas House of Representatives representing part of Fort Smith from 1985 to 1992.
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Tim Hutchinson defeated a fellow Republican state lawmaker Richard L Barclay of Rogers, for the Republican nomination.
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Tim Hutchinson owed his victory to a 10,000-vote margin in his native Benton County.
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The district reverted to form in 1994, and Tim Hutchinson was reelected with 63 percent of the vote.
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Tim Hutchinson ran for the Senate seat being vacated by popular Democrat David Pryor in 1996.
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When Democratic Governor Jim Guy Tucker resigned after being convicted of mail fraud Huckabee assumed the governorship and dropped out of the Senate race; Tim Hutchinson entered soon after and captured the Republican nomination.
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Tim Hutchinson became the first Republican Senator from Arkansas since Reconstruction, and the first to be popularly elected.
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Tim Hutchinson opposes abortion, supports tax cuts, supports de-regulation of the economy, supports the death penalty and a Constitutional amendment banning flag burning, opposes same-sex marriage, and opposes expanding hate crimes legislation.
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In 1998, Tim Hutchinson joined two other Republican Senators, Bob Smith of New Hampshire and James Inhofe of Oklahoma, in opposing President Bill Clinton's nomination of James Hormel, an openly gay man, as United States Ambassador to Luxembourg.
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Tim Hutchinson served on the Armed Services Committee, Aging Committee, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and Veterans' Affairs Committee.
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Senator Tim Hutchinson honored the Little Rock Nine in the award ceremony for their Congressional Medals of Honor.
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Tim Hutchinson faced Arkansas Attorney General Mark Pryor, David Pryor's son, in his 2002 re-election campaign.
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Tim Hutchinson lost to Pryor by eight points, making him the only Republican incumbent to be defeated that year.
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Tim Hutchinson married his second wife, Randi Fredholm Tim Hutchinson, a former senior member of staff, in 2000.
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On January 8,2021, a lobbying report shows that Tim Hutchinson paid The Tolman Group $10,000 to lobby for a pardon from Donald Trump for Jeremy, who had been convicted of bribery and tax fraud; however, President Trump did not pardon him.
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Tim and Asa Hutchinson are the brothers-in-law of Arkansas State Senator Kim Hendren, who married their sister, Marylea, in 1958.