William Homer Hamilton (February 6, 1913
in
Carman,
Manitoba – September 29, 1997) was a
politician in Manitoba,
Canada. He was a
Progressive Conservative member of the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1969.
The son of John Love Hamilton and Sadie Louise Kilpatrick, Hamilton was educated in
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and at Dominion Business College.
In 1932, he became manager of the Ogilvie Flour Mills elevator in
Saltcoats, Saskatchewan, returning to Manitoba in 1936. Hamilton worked as a grain farmer until 1963.
He was appointed Drainage Maintenance Superintendent of
Dufferin in 1946, and became a trustee on the Sperling Cons. School in 1951. He retained the latter position while serving in the Manitoba legislature. In 1940. Hamilton married Helen June Wickend.
He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the
1958 provincial election, but lost to
Liberal-Progressive incumbent
Walter McDonald by 73 votes in the riding of
Dufferin.
The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government in the
1959 provincial election, and Hamilton defeated McDonald by 154 votes to take the seat on his second try. He was re-elected by greater margins in the elections of
1962
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and
1966
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,
and served as a backbench supporter of the governments of
Dufferin Roblin and
Walter Weir. He did not run for re-election in 1969.
After retiring from politics, he worked as constituency secretary for federal member of parliament
Jack Murta.
References
1913 births
1997 deaths
Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba MLAs
People from Carman, Manitoba
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