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University of Chicago. DePauw University.
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Thomas Hale
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A native of Marion, Indiana, Hamilton received his Bachelor of Arts (1936) from DePauw University and his Master of Arts (1940) and Doctor of Philosophy (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.
He died in Honolulu at the age of 65. The University of Hawaii"s Hamilton Library is named in his honor.
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