Background
Doctor Tom Hayhurst was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana on July 5, 1942. He grew up in Fort Wayne, Indianapolis and Chicago, Illinois.
Doctor Tom Hayhurst was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana on July 5, 1942. He grew up in Fort Wayne, Indianapolis and Chicago, Illinois.
Hayhurst graduated from Indiana University at Bloomington in 1964. He graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine at Indianapolis in 1967 with an Doctor of Medicine. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency and Pulmonary-Critical Care Fellowship training at Indiana University Medical Center (Indianapolis, Indiana), Grady Memorial Hospital/Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia), and Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio).
He unsuccessfully sought Indiana"s 3rd District Congressional seat as the Democratic nominee in 2006 and 2010. A Vietnam-era veteran, Doctor Tom Hayhurst served as a Captain Major in the United States Air Force.
From 1969-1971, he served as General Medical Officer on active duty at various military installations across the United States.
From 1974-2005 Doctor Hayhurst practiced medicine as Pulmonary-Critical Care specialist at Indiana Medical Associates in Fort Wayne. He currently serves as Medical Director of the Tuberculosis Control Division of the Infectious Disease Center, a part of the Fort Wayne-Allen County (Indiana) Health Department.
From 1996-2008 Doctor Hayhurst served on the Fort Wayne City Council. He represented the 4th District of Fort Wayne, which now includes the annexed potions of Aboite Township, in rural Allen County.
Hayhurst raised over $690,517 in comparison to Souder"s $622,034 in 2006.
He was defeated by Mark Souder by a 54-46% margin, the closest in Souder"s congressional career. Key issues during Doctor Tom Hayhurst"s 2006 congressional campaign were job creation, affordable health care and veterans services in his bid to unseat Republican Mark Souder. Doctor Hayhurst filed a report with the Federal Election Commission terminating his campaign committee on 29 December 2006.
Doctor Hayhurst chose not to file as a candidate for Congress in 2008.
Hayhurst was the 2010 Democratic candidate for the 3rd district congressional election.Republican State Senator Marlin Stutzman defeated Hayhurst and Libertarian nominee Scott Wise in both the regular and special election for the seat. Stutzman received 63% of the vote in defeating Hayhurst, who garnered only 33%.
Hayhurst advocates local economy/jobs, green energy, is pro-Second Amendment, veterans, education, and healthcare. United Steelworkers.
Doctor Hayhurst has served as a clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and is a member of the Boards of Arts United, Arthritis Foundation, Indiana High Speed Rail Associate, and Invent Tomorrow. He is also a founding member of Veterans for Better Health Care, the Wolf Lake Free Health Clinic, the pulmonary clinic at Matthew 25 Free Health and Dental Clinic in Fort Wayne and the Northeast Indiana Passenger Rail Association.