Finley Hamilton

Finley Hamilton ( born June 19, 1886 in Vincent, Owsley County, Kentucky; † 10 January 1940 in London, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Finley Hamilton attended the common schools and the Berea College. Between 1907 and 1915 he was stationed as a soldier in the U.S. Army in the Philippines and in Alaska. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer in London, he began to work in this profession. During the First World War, Hamilton was again a soldier in the Army. He was employed on the French theater of war in a message unit.

Hamilton was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1932 he was in the third electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John William Moore on March 4, 1933. Since he resigned in 1934 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1935. During this time the first New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was also abolished in 1933 with the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, originally from the 1919 18th Amendment, which prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Finley Hamilton practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 10 January 1940 in London and was also buried there.