The son of Wisconsin Senator Charles W. Hutchison (1927 – 1930), Charles Hutchison graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1927. He retired in 1963 as a U.S. Army Major General. His younger brother David W. Hutchison (USMA 1931) served in the Pacific as an Army Air Forces Colonel and also earned a Silver Star in World War II, and retired in 1963 as a U.S. Air Force Major General.