Draft:John B. Hutcheson

John Belgium Hutcheson (November 1860 – May 21, 1939) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1934 to 1938.

Born in Jonesboro, Georgia, Hutcheson attended Jonesboro High School, and the University of Georgia. He gained admission to the bar in Georgia in 1886, and entered the private practice of law in Atlanta in 1888.

He served as a judge of the Stone Mountain circuit of the Georgia Superior Court.

On January 21, 1934, Governor Eugene Talmadge appointed Hutcheson to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the death of Justice H. Warner Hill. Hutcheson was elected for a full term in 1936.

Married Rebecca Shepard Mann.

Hutcheson died at his home in Jonesboro at the age of 78, having been bedridden for six months.

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