Isaac Miller Hamilton

Isaac Miller Hamilton (September 6, 1864 – August 11, 1952) was an American politician and businessman from Illinois. Hamilton attended private school before establishing a successful banking and real estate company. He was admitted to the bar in 1889 and practiced law. Hamilton was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1896, serving a four-year term. He later founded the Federal Life Insurance Company and served as its longtime president. He remained chairman of its board of directors until the time of his death.

Biography Isaac Miller Hamilton was born on September 6, 1864, in Ash Grove, Illinois. The son of a successful businessman, Hamilton attended private school at Grand Prairie Seminary. In 1881, at the age of sixteen, he established a store with Tunis Young in Ash Grove. Young & Hamilton became a successful banking and real estate house, later moving to Cissna Park. Hamilton was admitted to the bar in 1889 and established a practice focused on chancery, probate, and corporate law. Hamilton became town attorney for Cissna Park when it was incorporated.

Hamilton did not seek any other public office until 1896, when he successfully ran for a seat on the Illinois Senate. During his term, he moved to Chicago to establish the law form of Hamilton & Atkinson. He co-founded the Federal Life Insurance Company with J. Ellsworth Griffin and was appointed its first president.