presidential election and spread Trump's "Big Lie" about the election not be put in positions of leadership. He also accused Trump of dividing the party and said his election conspiracies were "recipe for disaster". On February 5, 2022, Hutchinson and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski condemned the Republican National Committee's censure of Representatives Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney for their support of and participation on the House Select Committee tasked with investigating the January 6 United States Capitol attack. Personal life Hutchinson's older brother, Tim, preceded him as U.S. representative from Arkansas' 3rd congressional district and served as a U.S. senator from 1997 to 2003 before being defeated for reelection by then-Arkansas Attorney General Mark Pryor, a Democrat, in 2002. Asa and Tim Hutchinson are both graduates of Bob Jones University. Tim Hutchinson's identical twin sons, Jeremy and Timothy Chad Hutchinson, were the first twins to serve together in the Arkansas General Assembly, both as members of the House of Representatives. Asa Hutchinson is the brother-in-law of former Arkansas state Senator Kim Hendren, who in 1958 married his sister Marylea Hutchinson. Arkansas District 2 State Senator Jim Hendren of Sulphur Springs is Hutchinson's nephew. Hutchinson's son Asa Hutchinson III has been arrested multiple times for driving offenses, including arrests in 2023, 2019, 2018, and 2016 for DWI and an arrest for possession of a controlled substance at a music festival in 2016 and simultaneous possession of a controlled substance and a firearm in 2023. He has four children with his wife, Susan Burrell. Electoral history See also 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Arkansas References External links Governor Asa Hutchinson official government site Asa Hutchinson on Getting Our Country Back on Track |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1950 births 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century American politicians 21st-century American politicians Arkansas lawyers Arkansas Republican state chairmen Baptists from Arkansas Bob Jones University alumni Constitution Project Drug Enforcement Administration Administrators Republican Party governors of Arkansas Hutchinson family Living people People from Bentonville, Arkansas Politicians from Fort Smith, Arkansas Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas United States Attorneys for the Western District of Arkansas United States Department of Homeland Security officials University of Arkansas people Members of Congress who became lobbyists