Daniel W. Hamilton

Daniel Webster Hamilton ( * December 20, 1861 in Dixon, Illinois; † August 21, 1936 in Rochester, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1909 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1868, Daniel Hamilton moved with his parents in the Miami County in Kansas. 1874 the family moved further into the Keokuk County, Iowa. There, Hamilton attended the public schools. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and his 1884 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Sigourney. Between 1894 and 1898 he was also postmaster of this city.

Hamilton was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1906 he was in the sixth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1907 the succession of Republican John F. Lacey, whom he had defeated in the election. In the following legislative period Hamilton was the only Democrat from the State of Iowa. For the 1908 elections, he was defeated by Republican Nathan E. Kendall. He was eliminated on 3 March 1909 from the U.S. House of Representatives.

After the end of his time in Congress, Hamilton again worked as a lawyer in Sigourney and later in Grinnell. Since 1918 until his death in 1936 he was a judge in the Sixth Judicial District of the State of. Daniel Hamilton died on 21 August 1936 in Rochester (Minnesota) and was buried near Thornburg.