John K. Hutchison

John Keith Hutchison
Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 52nd district
In office January 2013 – January 2015
Preceded by	Reginald Murdock
Succeeded by	Dwight Tosh
Personal details
Born	1959
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Karen Hutchison
Residence	Harrisburg, Poinsett County Arkansas, USA
Alma mater	Arkansas State University
Profession	Farmer

John Keith Hutchison (born 1959) is a Republican former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, first elected in 2012 for District 52, which includes parts of Poinsett, Craighead, Jackson, and Independence counties in a farming area of eastern Arkansas.

Hutchison himself is a farmer in Harrisburg in Poinsett County. He graduated from Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.

To win his state House seat, Hutchison defeated by 45 votes the Democrat L. J. Bryant, 5,059 to 5,014. The incumbent Democrat Reginald Murdock was switched to District 48.

Hutchison served on the Arkansas Legislative Council and these House committees: (1) Energy, (2) Revenue and Taxation, and (3) State Agencies and Governmental Affairs. He was the vice chairman of the Subcommittee on House Elections.

In 2013, Representative Hutchison co-sponsored a proposed spending cap on the state budget, but the measure failed by two votes on the House floor. He voted to override the vetoes of Democratic Governor Mike Beebe to enact legislation to require photo identification for casting a ballot in Arkansas and to ban abortion after twenty weeks of gestation. He further supported related pro-life legislation to forbid the inclusion of abortion in the state insurance exchange, to make the death of an unborn child a felony in certain cases, and to forbid abortion whenever fetal heartbreat is detected.

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