John Ronald Hamilton (1871 – 12 January 1940) was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party.
Hamilton was born in 1871 in Forest Hill in Southland, where he received his education. He later moved to the nearby Winton.[1] He was the elder brother of Adam Hamilton.[2]
Hamilton unsuccessfully contested the Southland electorate of Awarua in the 1911 and 1914 elections, before he was successful in 1919.[1] He lost the 1922 election, but defeated Philip De La Perrelle of the Liberal Party in 1925,[1] but lost to him in 1928.[3]
In 1935, Hamilton was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[4]
He died at Winton on 12 January 1940.[5]
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