He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1953 to 1958 as a representative of the Social Credit League.
Hutton was educated in local schools, and received a journeyman's electrician certificate in 1936.
He was one of only two Social Credit MLAs to serve in the legislature in this period, and the only one who remained with the party through to the 1958 election.
According to reports from the Winnipeg Free Press, the Social Credit MLAs focused on the need for monetary reform in their first speeches to the legislature.
The Social Credit League was eliminated from the legislature in the 1958 election, and Hutton was resoundingly defeated in Minnedosa by Liberal-Progressive MLA Charles Shuttleworth, whose previous constituency had been eliminated by redistribution.