Earl Hutto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American politician
Date of Birth: 12-May-1926
Place of Birth: Midland City, Alabama, United States
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Earl Hutto
- Earl Dewitt Hutto (born May 12, 1926) is an American politician.
- He is a former U.S.
- Representative from Florida's 1st congressional district. Born in Midland City, Alabama, Hutto attended Dale County public schools, and received a Bachelor of Science from Troy State University in 1949.
- He served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946.
- Afterward he returned to graduate school, studying broadcasting at Northwestern University in 1951.
- He worked as sports director at WEAR-TV in Pensacola, Florida from 1954 to 1961, WSFA-TV in Montgomery, Alabama from 1961 to 1963, and WJHG-TV in Panama City, Florida, from 1961 to 1973.
- He operated an advertising agency from 1973 to 1979. Hutto was elected as a Democrat to the Florida House of Representatives in 1972 and was reelected in 1974 and 1976.
- He was elected in 1978 to the 96th and to the seven succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1979, to January 3, 1995.
- He decided not to run as a candidate in 1994 for reelection to the 104th Congress. Hutto was one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress during his tenure in office.
- The white conservatives of his district had begun to vote for Republican presidential candidates in the 1960s, but continued to re-elect Hutto.
- Party officials believed that he would be succeeded by a Republican once he retired, given the rising registration by the white majority in the Republican Party.
- He voted against the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act in 1986.In 1990, Hutto was nearly defeated by Republican challenger Terry Ketchel, who held Hutto to 52 percent of the vote.
- This was the first competitive contest in the district in recent memory.
- For more than half of the twentieth century, most African Americans had been effectively disenfranchised in the state.
- White Democrats made up the voting majority throughout this state and in the Solid South.
- Hutto defeated Ketchel in a rematch in 1992, but was challenged and held to 52 percent of the vote.
- Because of his narrow victories, Hutto chose against running in 1994.
- He was succeeded by a Republican.
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