Background
Hamilton, Peter Joseph was born on March 19, 1859 in Mobile, Alabama, United States. Son of Peter and Anna Martha (Beers) Hamilton.
Hamilton, Peter Joseph was born on March 19, 1859 in Mobile, Alabama, United States. Son of Peter and Anna Martha (Beers) Hamilton.
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1879, A.M., 1882. Mental science fellowship, and later attended University of Leipzig. Also law courses, university of Virginia and Alabama, 1881-1882.
Bachelor of Laws, University of Alabama, 1882, Doctor of Laws, 1910, and Spring Hill College, 1911.
Review Doctor J. R. Burgett, of Mobile, June 30, 1891. Children—Peter Vernon (deceased), Anna Carlotta, Rachel Duke (wife of E. A. Can, United States of America). Practiced at Mobile; has been city attorney there.
French consular agent, 1911-1913. Judge The United States of America District Court, District of P.R., 1913-1921. Professor constitutional law, in Law School of University of P.R., 1921-1925, also practicing law at San Juan.
President Iberville History Society of Mobile. Author: International Public Law (with Hannis Taylor), 1901. Colonization of the South (Volume 3, History of N. America), 1904.
The Reconstruction Period (Volunteer 16 in same series), 1906. Origin and Growth of the Common Law in England and America. Puerto Rico Federal Reports (Volumes 6 to 12).
Home: San Juan, P.R.
Married Rachel Wheeler, d. Children: Peter Vernon (deceased), Anna Carlotta, Rachel Duke (wife of E. A. Can, United States of America).