William Kinsey "Bill" Hutchinson (June 27, 1896 – May 25, 1958) was an American reporter who became a friend of presidents, legislators, cabinet members, and other U.S. government diplomats and officials. Between 1913 and 1920 William (Bill) worked as a reporter for a Reading, Pennsylvania newspaper. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 1920 and started work for William Randolph Hearst's International News Service (INS). As an INS reporter, he covered the John T. Scopes trial, also known as the Scopes Trial, in Dayton, Tennessee and on July 24, 1925 he was the first reporter to file the dispatch stating the outcome. A conversation that occurred during the last days of the trial, Scopes said:
"There's something I must tell you. It's worried me. I didn't violate the law ...I never taught that evolution lesson. I skipped it. I was doing something else the day I should have taught it, and I missed the whole lesson about Darwin and never did teach it. Those kids they put on the stand couldn't remember what I taught them three months ago. They were coached by the lawyers." "Honest, I've been scared all through the trial that the kids might remember I missed the lesson. I was afraid they'd get on the stand and say I hadn't taught it and then the whole trial would go blooey. If that happened they would run me out of town on a rail."
William Medcalf Kinsey (October 28, 1846 – June 20, 1931) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, Kinsey attended Hopedale Academy, Harrison County, Ohio, and Monmouth College, Illinois. He became a resident of Muscatine County, Iowa, in 1863. He studied law at the University of Iowa College of Law in Iowa City in 1871. He was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commenced practice in Muscatine County, Iowa, the same year. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1875 and engaged in the practice of law.
Kinsey was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress. He resumed the practice of law in St. Louis, Missouri. He served as judge of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis in 1904–1917. During the First World War, he was chairman of the draft examining board in Carondelet. He resumed the practice of his profession. He died in St. Louis, Missouri, June 20, 1931. He was interred in Sunset Hill Burial Park, St. Louis County, Missouri.