Thomas H. Hamilton

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 University of Hawaii.^[1]

A native of Marion, Indiana, Hamilton received his A.B. (1936) from DePauw University and his A.M. (1940) and Ph.D. (1947) from the University of Chicago. While a student at DePauw, he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.^[2] He headed the State University of New York system from 1959,^[3] leaving in 1963 to assume the Presidency of the University of Hawaii.^[4] Hamilton resigned his presidency in Hawaii over a tenure scandal in 1967.^[5]

Thomas Hamilton married the former Virginia Prindiville on June 1, 1940 and raised a son and a daughter.^[6] He died in Honolulu at the age of 65. The University of Hawaii's Hamilton Library is named in his honor.