Peter J. Hamill

Peter J. Hamill (c. 1885 in New York City – January 13, 1930 in Manhattan, New York City) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He attended the public schools. He entered politics as a Democrat, and was an Inspector of the New York City Bureau of Weights and Measures from 1910 to 1915. He married Matilda Van Axen, and they had two children.

Hamill was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930.

He was chosen Minority Leader at the opening of the session on January 1, 1930. On January 6, he underwent an emergency operation for appendicitis, but remained ill in Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan for another week, and died there about 20 minutes past midnight on January 13.^[1] He was buried at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn.

On January 23, 1930, his widow Matilda Van Axen Hamill was appointed as Supervisor of Investigators for the new Crime Prevention Bureau of the New York City Police Department at a salary of $4,500 a year.

Sources

1. "P. J. Hamill, Leader In Assembly, Dies. Succumbs Only 2 Weeks After Being Named Successor to the Late Maurice Bloch. Had Undergone an Emergency Operation for Appendicitis. Was 44 Years Old.". New York Times. January 13, 1930. Retrieved 2015-01-29. Assemblyman Peter J. Hamill, who was chosen only two weeks ago as minority leader in the New York State Assembly, died in Polyclinic Hospital at 12:20 this morning. He had been ill at the hospital for the past week after undergoing an emergency operation for appendicitis on Jan. 6. ...

• GUIDE FOR VOTERS BY CITIZENS UNION in NYT on October 28, 1917 ["Assemblyman 1916–7 with poor showing."]
• NOMINEES ANALYZED BY CITIZENS UNION in NYT on October 27, 1918 ["The three years' service of Peter J. Hamill has been without public benefit."]
• CITIZEN UNION GIVES LINE ON CANDIDATES in NYT on October 26, 1921 ["...an experienced and active member with a considerably improved record of votes over previous years, but the character of his legislation continues poor."]
• GOVERNOR IN THRONG AT HAMILL FUNERAL in NYT on January 17, 1930 (subscription required)
• HAMILL BURIAL TO BE THURSDAY in The New York Sun on January 13, 1930 [with portrait]
• CITY, STATE LEADERS AT HAMILL FUNERAL in the New York Evening Post on January 17, 1930 [with photo of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt]
• WIRE BRIEFS; ...Mrs. Matilda Van Axen Hamill...was appointed... in The Plattsburgh Sentinel, of Plattsburgh, New York, on January 24, 1930

External links

• 34 Dominick Street House (NYC Designated Landmark) Hamill's residence from 1923 until his death