Jeremy Young Hutchinson (born March 4, 1974) is a Republican politician and a former member of the Arkansas State Senate for District 33 in the capital city of Little Rock, Arkansas. He served in the

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from two different districts in Pulaski County between 2000 and 2007 and as a state senator from 2011 to his resignation in 2018.

Political career

Hutchinson was first elected to the Arkansas House in March 2000, as representative of Arkansas District 31, Pulaski County. At the time he was the youngest member of the Arkansas House. He was re-elected three times and served on the House Judiciary and Insurance and Commerce committees. He was the vice-chair of the Joint Energy Committee and the assistant minority leader from 2002 to 2004. On August 4, 2009, Hutchinson announced his intent to run for the Arkansas State Senate from District 22, Pulaski County. On May 18, 2010, he defeated

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, son of the columnist Paul Greenberg, in the Republican primary, 58 to 42 percent. On November 2, 2010, Hutchinson defeated

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nominee Dawn Creekmore to claim the District 22 Senate seat. He was re-elected in 2013. Jeremy Hutchinson was named to ''

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's'' "40 under 40" in 2002. He served on the board of the Arkansas Council on Economic Education. His biography states that in 2005, he was voted "Best Conservative" by readers of the '' Arkansas Times''.

Conviction and Resignation

On August 31, 2018, the Department of Justice announced that Hutchinson was indicted by a federal

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on 12 wire and tax fraud charges. Hutchinson resigned his office the same day. He faces "eight counts of wire fraud for spending the campaign funds on personal expenses and falsifying campaign reports and four counts of filing false tax returns from 2011 to 2014." On June 25, 2019, Hutchinson pleaded guilty to "accepting multiple bribes and tax fraud in connection with a multi-district investigation spanning the Western and Eastern Districts of Arkansas and the Western District of Missouri."

Family and personal life

Hutchinson and his identical twin brother

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are the sons of former

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Tim Hutchinson and nephews of the

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, Asa Hutchinson. Timothy Chad Hutchinson represented District 95, Benton County, from 2005 to 2011. Hutchinson is a nephew by marriage of former state senator

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of Gravette, Benton County. Kim Hendren's son

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, District 2 state senator from Benton County and the senate majority leader, is Hutchinson's cousin. In 2006, Hutchinson's mother, Donna Jean King Hutchinson of Bella Vista, Arkansas, was elected to the state House from District 98 in Benton County. She served four two-year terms. Hutchinson and his former wife were divorced in 2011. He and his former spouse both used alternate forms of their names in that filing; he filed for divorce under his middle name, "Young Hutchinson." On September 4, 2012, Hutchinson's ex-girlfriend, Julie McGee, was arrested for third-degree domestic battery at Hutchinson's Chenal Woods condominium in Little Rock after she hit Hutchinson with a preserved alligator head and left him with a bleeding wound. According to journalist Max Brantley, McGee had said that she had a financial support agreement with Hutchinson. Shortly thereafter, Hutchinson formally requested that the prosecuting attorney drop the battery charges so that he could "move on without any further embarrassment. In 2013, Hutchinson participated in "active shooter" training and mistakenly shot a teacher with a rubber bullet who was confronting a so-called "bad guy". The experience gave Hutchinson "some pause" but failed to shake his confidence in the training plan."School Districts Hope to Keep Security Licenses", '' Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' August 28, 2013.

References

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