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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.

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. He headed the State University of New York system from 1959, leaving in 1963 to assume the Presidency of the University of Hawaii. Hamilton resigned his presidency in Hawaii over a tenure scandal in 1967.

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

References

1. "HALL OF NAMES". Fred W. Riggs. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
2. The Mirage. Greencastle, IN: DePauw University. 1936. p. 40.
3. The State University of New York (1985), Sixty-four campuses: the State University of New York to 1985 (1 ed.), Albany, New York: Office of University Affairs and Development, OCLC 12556911
4. "Hamilton to Leave Post as President of State University", The New York Times, p. 1, 1962-08-28
5. "U. of Hawaii Head Quits After Rebuff Over a War Critic", The New York Times, p. 31, 1967-12-24
6. Who Was Who in America, vol. VII, Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1981, ISBN 978-0-8379-0210-4, OCLC 13679786

• 1914 births
• 1979 deaths
• DePauw University alumni
• Chancellors of the State University of New York
• University of Chicago alumni
• Leaders of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• People from Marion, Indiana
• 20th-century American academics