Walter Alfred Hamilton (10 March 1863 - 1 September 1955) was an Australian politician. He was a public accountant, auditor and general manager before entering politics.
Hamilton was born near Glenelg, South Australia and educated at Glenelg Grammar School.[1] He was a Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Sandhurst from 1894 until 1900, when he fell out with Labor and ran for re-election and lost as a supporter of Premier Allan McLean.[2] [3] [4] He was re-elected to his old seat as an unaligned candidate in 1902, but was defeated for the new seat of Bendigo West in 1904 after his old seat was abolished.[5] [6]
He was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly in 1917, winning a 1917 by-election for the seat of East Torrens for the Liberal Union.[7] He was re-elected in 1918 and 1921, but was defeated in 1924.[8] [9] He won a 1925 by-election, was re-elected in 1927, but defeated again in 1930.[4] [10] He was again elected in the Liberal and Country League landslide at the 1933 election, but contested and lost Norwood in 1938 after the abolition of East Torrens.[11] [12]