Israel Hamilton

Israel Hamilton was appointed United States Attorney for the District of Ohio by Martin Van Buren in 1839. He served for two years.

Israel Hamilton
Born(1799-04-14)April 14, 1799
Massachusetts
DiedOctober 11, 1842(1842-10-11) (aged 43)
Champaign County, Ohio
Resting placeOak Dale Cemetery, Urbana, Ohio
Alma materBrown University
OfficeUnited States Attorney for District of Ohio

Israel Hamilton was born in Massachusetts and educated at Brown University.[1] He was born April 14, 1799.[2] After college, he taught school in Abbeville, South Carolina. He came to Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio in 1828.[1]

He was first elected in 1832 as Fence Viewer.[3] Hamilton was a Whig when he first came west, but became an active Democrat. Martin Van Buren, of that party, appointed him United States Attorney in 1839, and he served until Whig William Henry Harrison chose Charles Anthony.[4]

Hamilton died in the fall of 1842.[5] He is buried at Oak Dale Cemetery in Urbana.[2]

Notes
  1. Beers, p. 300.
  2. Findagrave.
  3. Beers, p. 301.
  4. Southern District.
  5. Beers, p. 302.
gollark: So the idea is that *you* pick a value for your patent, and anyone who is willing to put up that much money can buy it off you.
gollark: One of them was to make it so you had to pay some % of your patent's value to keep it (probably an increasing-over-time amount). Now, you might say "hmm but how do you assess value", which is an entirely reasonable concern.
gollark: There are various interesting proposals for adjusting them.
gollark: I mean, we have patent laws for that, no? They could use tweaking too.
gollark: Yes, I am in favour of that sort of thing.

References
  • "Israel Hamilton (1799 – 1842)". Find a Grave. 3 Oct 2008.
  • The History of Champaign county, Ohio: ... Chicago: W H Beers. 1881. p. 205.
  • "History of the U.S. Attorney Southern District of Ohio". United States Attorney's Office Southern District of Ohio.
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