Duncan Hamilton (politician)

Duncan Hamilton (born 1973 in Troon ) is a Scottish lawyer, politician and member of the Scottish National Party. He attended Bearsden Academy and studied history and law at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He also attended the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University.

Hamilton was some time for the SNP chairman Michael Russell worked. In the Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 was a candidate for the Hamilton SNP in the constituency of Argyll and Bute, but only received the second highest number of votes behind the Liberal Democrats George Lyon. But Hamilton was also on the Regional Evaluation of the SNP for the election Highlands and Islands and moved as a result of the election result as one of seven regional candidates and youngest MPs in the newly created Scottish parliament. Hamilton was one of the political aspirations of the SNP. In February 2002, he announced that he will not compete at the 2003 parliamentary elections. The reason he gave to lack of life experience that distinguishing a good politician. For this reason, he wanted first to gain experience outside of politics. At the end of the legislative period Hamilton resigned from the Parliament. In 2007, he was political adviser to the First Minister Alex Salmond.