Hinson was the representative for Mississippi’s 4th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1979 to 1982.
Misconduct
In 1981, Hinson was arrested for engaging in sexual activity with a member of the same sex, then illegal in Washington, D.C. On Apr. 13, 1981, he resigned. On May. 28, 1981, he pleaded no contest to charges of "attempted oral sodomy" in a House office building restroom.
| Apr. 13, 1981 | Resigned. |
| May. 28, 1981 | Pleaded no contest to charges of "attempted oral sodomy" in a House office building restroom. |
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Hinson is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1982 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Hinson sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 1977 to Dec 21, 1982. See full analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Hinson sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Taxation (33%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Social Welfare (10%) Labor and Employment (10%) Commerce (9%) Education (7%) Finance and Financial Sector (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Hinson recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 1065 (97th): A bill entitled, “The Financial Regulation Simplification Act”.
- H.R. 1085 (97th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase …
- H.R. 1067 (97th): Student Freedom of Choice Act
- H.R. 1105 (97th): Smaller Enterprise Regulatory Improvement Act
- H.R. 1069 (97th): A bill to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 …
- H.R. 1078 (97th): A bill to amend the Lanham Act to provide that the Federal …
- H.R. 1093 (97th): A bill to exempt limited amounts of oil production by independent producers …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1979 to Apr 1981, Hinson missed 175 of 1,294 roll call votes, which is 13.5%. This is much worse than the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Apr 1981. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
