Thomas Hale Hamilton (August 4, 1914 – December 25, 1979) was an American academic administrator who served as president of the State University of New York and the

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. A native of Marion, Indiana, Hamilton received his

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(1936) from

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and his A.M. (1940) and

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(1947) from the

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. While a student at DePauw, he was initiated into the

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fraternity. He headed the State University of New York system from 1959, leaving in 1963 to assume the Presidency of the University of Hawaii. Hamilton resigned his presidency in Hawaii over a tenure scandal in 1967. Thomas Hamilton married the former Virginia Prindiville on June 1, 1940 and raised a son and a daughter. He died in

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at the age of 65. The University of Hawaii's Hamilton Library is named in his honor.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Thomas H. 1914 births 1979 deaths DePauw University alumni Chancellors of the State University of New York University of Chicago alumni Leaders of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa People from Marion, Indiana 20th-century American academics