William Hoyt

William Ballard Hoyt II (June 20, 1937 – March 25, 1992) was an American politician from New York.

Early life and education He was born on June 20, 1937, the son of Capt. John Davidson Hill Hoyt (1898–1943), who served with the 307th Bomb Group, 372d Bombardment Squadron and was killed in a crash off the coast of Kauai, Hawaiian Islands. His paternal grandparents were William B. Hoyt, an executive with the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company and founder of The Cornell Daily Sun at Cornell University, and Esther Lapham (née Hill) Hoyt.

His aunt, Esther Hoyt, was the wife of Ansley Wilcox Sawyer, a nephew of Ansley Wilcox, a friend of Theodore Roosevelt whose home on Delaware Avenue was the site of Roosevelt's inauguration following the assassination of President William McKinley.

Hoyt was educated at The Park School of Buffalo before attending Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. In 2011, Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed Sam to serve as a regional vice president of the state's economic development agency.

On March 25, 1992, he suffered a heart attack during a debate in the Assembly, and died soon after in Albany Medical Center. He was 54 years old.