Biography

01/09/1869 - 04/08/1935

HAMILTON, William J., a Representative from Philadelphia County, born, January 9, 1869 in Manayunk, Philadelphia County, Pa.; mill worker (1 year); employed, M. and W. H. Nixon Paper Company (1882-1901); member, 21st Ward Republican Executive Committee (40 years); deputy register of wills, Philadelphia; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1918; resigned from the House, June 26, 1919; grocer; employed, Pennsylvania Department of Revenue; died, April 8, 1935 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Westminster Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.