He was initially elected in 2004, two years after his father, Tim Hutchinson, lost reelection to Democrat Mark Pryor to a second term in the United States Senate.
Former Governor Mike Huckabee named Hutchinson to the Arkansas State Drug and Alcohol Prevention Advisory Board.
[5] On October 31, 1996, the week before his father was elected to the U.S. Senate, the then 22-year-old Hutchinson was involved in an automobile accident near Fayetteville, Arkansas in which a couple in their sixties, Jack Clinton Watlington and Reba Beavers Watlington from Center, Texas, en route to a funeral, were killed.
Hutchinson pleaded no contest to driving left of the center line and operating a vehicle with worn tires.
Hendren lost the U.S. Senate Republican primary in 2010 but was a successful candidate in 2014 for the District 92 seat in the Arkansas House.