1950-
U.S. Representative, Impeachment Prosecutor

Arkansas Roots.

Asa Hutchinson was born in Gravette, Arkansas, on 3 December 1950. He attended Arkansas public schools and received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Bob Jones University in 1972. He earned his law degree from the University of Arkansas in 1975, where Bill Clinton taught, although Hutchinson did not take any of his classes. In 1986 the Arkansas Jaycees named him one of the ten outstanding young leaders in the state.

Political History.

In 1977 Hutchinson assumed his first public office as city attorney for Bentonville, Arkansas. From 1982 to 1985 he served as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, Hutchinson was, at age thirty-one, the youngest federal prosecutor in the country. During his tenure as U.S. Attorney, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) awarded Hutchinson a citation for his successful prosecution of a terrorist group in...