JOHN E. HUTTON JR., M.D. ’53

JOHN E. HUTTON JR., M.D., a former White House physician, died Dec. 19, 2014. He was 83. A member of Eclectic, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps after graduation and served as a helicopter pilot. He then studied medicine at George Washington University and entered the U.S. Army Medical Corps after his 1963 graduation. In Vietnam he was on the battlefield and later published many articles in medical journals, as he was considered an authority on bullet wounds and the management of wartime casualties. He later became chief of surgery at Walter Reed Hospital and then joined the White House staff, where he served as White House physician during President Ronald Reagan’s second term. He retired from the military with the rank of brigadier general, and from 1993 to 2010 he taught surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Among his other interests, he enjoyed photography. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Joyce Hutton, four children, eight grandchildren, and his sister.