From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

Clarence D. Hinton was born in Sharpsburg, KY, the son of Davis and Elsie Trumbo Hinton. The family lived on Back Street in 1920, according to the U.S. Federal Census, and later moved to Peoria, IL, where Hinton was an outstanding student and star athlete. He was a graduate of Northwestern University, where he played football and was later inducted into the school's athletes' hall of fame. He was a member of the football team that won the 1936 Big Ten Conference Championship.

Clarence Hinton would become a physician in otolaryngology (ears, nose, throat, head and neck surgery), working as a clinical assistant at Howard University Medical School [now Howard University College of Medicine] 1945-1950, where he had received his M.D. in 1942. The Otolaryngology Clinic was relatively new to Howard University.

Hinton became a resident physician at Philadelphia General Hospital in 1950, later returning to Howard University to chair the Hospital's otolaryngology division, 1963-1979, and chair of the otolaryngology department at Children's National Medical Center from 1978-1980. He was the first African American to chair the Washington D.C. Medical Society Otolaryngology Section.

Hinton retired in 1990 but was still active in medicine at Howard University Hospital. He was a World War II Army veteran, having served as a medical doctor. He was the husband of ViCurtis Gray Hinton.

For more see Who's Who in Colored America, 1950; and "Ear, nose, throat Doctor Clarence David Hinton, 91," The Washington Post, 10/4/2008, Metro section, p. B6.