So the story goes that one day a teacher named J.R. McCormick called him in to the office to talk about this outstanding GPA.  As any young man would do, he had ideas of where he wanted to be be in life, but JR McCormick saw something very special Hinton.  His little chat changed everything for the rest of Hinton's life. He received an academic scholarship and attended Northwestern University, in Evanston, IL.  He was on Northwestern's championship football team before graduating in 1938 and was later elected to the school's football hall of fame.  He pursued that medical degree and became a man who gave back to society in many ways.  He served his country honorably in WW II.  

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He was a 1942 graduate of Howard University's medical school and served in Burma and India as an Army medical officer during World War II. For part of the war, he was assigned to the 335th Station Hospital, an all-black facility near Tagap, Burma.  Keep in mind that he and other PHS Alumni were serving in that theater to include Lt Gen Ray Wheeler, Class of 1903.

 

​He owned and operated a private practice in family medicine from 1946 to 1949. A mentor encouraged Dr. Hinton's growing interest in otolaryngology, not a field offering blacks many opportunities for training. He did his residency at Philadelphia General Hospital and later wrote an unpublished history of the profession, "Early African-American Otolaryngologists."

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Dr. Hinton trained in otolaryngology in Philadelphia before opening a practice in Washington. His office was based at Washington Hospital Center for many years before he retired in 1990, although he maintained an active role in medicine at Howard University Hospital through 2001.

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He was chairman of Howard University Hospital's otolaryngology division from 1963 to 1979 and chaired the Children's National Medical Center's otolaryngology department from 1978 to 1980. While at Children's, he became the first black person to chair the D.C. Medical Society's otolaryngology section.

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In 1993, he received the lifetime distinguished service award from the National Medical Association, an organization that represents black doctors.

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He held top offices in other professional associations and societies. In the early 1950s, while on the staff at Freedman's Hospital, a predecessor to Howard University Hospital, he became a fellow in the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.

 

Until his death, he was among the oldest board-certified black otolaryngologists in the United States.

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His hobbies included playing classical music on violin and genealogy. He was married for 63 years to ViCurtis Gray Hinton, who had raised millions of dollars for local and national educational, cultural and civic institutions
before her death in 2006.

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Dr Hinton passed away on Sept 23, 2008.

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-Information from multiple sources including Dr Hinton's obituary.

- Article by Adam Berstein, Washington Post,   

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303315.html