Career
Foreign the head women"s basketball coach at Indiana Institute of Technology, see Rodney Hamilton. He is also a local pork producer. Hamilton graduated from Humboldt High School in Humboldt, Iowa.
He is a former president of the Minnesota Pork Producers.
Hamilton was first elected to the House in 2004, and was re-elected in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014. He was a minority whip during the 2009 legislative session, and was an assistant minority leader during the 2010 session.
On November 17, 2010, incoming Republican Speaker of the House Kurt Zellers announced that Hamilton would serve as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee during the 2011–2012 biennium. On November 30, 2010, he was named majority whip by his House Republican colleagues.
In 2014, he was again elected to the Republican
Rod Hamilton, R-Mountain Lake, will chair the House Agriculture Finance Committee.
