William Homer Hamilton (February 6, 1913
The son of John Love Hamilton and Sadie Louise Kilpatrick, Hamilton was educated in Sperling and at Dominion Business College.
He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1958 provincial election, but lost to Liberal-Progressive incumbent Walter McDonald by 73 votes in the riding of Dufferin. The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government in the 1959 provincial election, and Hamilton defeated McDonald by 154 votes to take the seat on his second try. He was re-elected by greater margins in the elections of 1962 and 1966,