Gerry E. Hinton

Gerry Earl Hinton (June 30, 1930 – July 2, 2000) was a pioneer in the chiropractic profession from Slidell, Louisiana, and served from 1984 to 1996 as a member of the Louisiana State Senate from District 11 (suburban New Orleans: St. Tammany and Tangipahoa parishes). Hinton was elected as a Democrat in 1983, but switched parties and won as a Republican in the nonpartisan blanket primaries of 1987 and 1991. He did not seek a fourth term in the 1995 primary and was succeeded by fellow Republican Tom Schedler of Slidell. Prior to his Senate tenure, Dr. Hinton was among a dozen doctors who worked for passage of the state's chiropractic licensing act. Louisiana was the last of the fifty states to pass a chiropractic licensing act. Hinton was...