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Sixteen Months in the Danish Isles

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Hamilton, Andrew

▪ British colonial lawyer
born c. 1676, , Scotland
died Aug. 4, 1741, Philadelphia, Pa. [U.S.]

      British American colonial lawyer, judge, and public official who defended John Peter Zenger (Zenger, John Peter) in a case important as the first victory for freedom of the press in the American colonies (1735).

      Hamilton is known to have migrated to Virginia as an indentured servant shortly before 1700. In Virginia he taught school, was admitted to practice law in the colony in 1703, married there in 1706, and two years later purchased a large landholding in Maryland. Hamilton practiced law in Kent county and served in the Maryland Assembly.

      After pursuing further legal studies at Gray's Inn, London, he returned to the American colonies and settled permanently in Philadelphia. He soon became a prominent attorney. He was appointed city recorder in 1727, and he later donated the building ground for and helped to plan the city's Province House (Independence Hall). He served the province as attorney general of Pennsylvania (1714), provincial agent of the colony (1724–26), and representative to the colonial assembly and speaker of the house (1727–39). He also was made a judge of the vice-admiralty court in 1737.

      When John Peter Zenger (Zenger, John Peter) (q.v.), a New York printer, was tried in 1735 for seditious libel against the colony's royal governor, William Cosby, Hamilton was retained as defense attorney by Cosby's political opponents. Hamilton argued that controversial articles printed in Zenger's New-York Weekly Journal were true and therefore could not be considered libelous. He also argued that, despite existing judicial procedures, the jury, not the judges, should determine the truth of the articles. Although the judges ruled Hamilton's arguments out of order, the jurors found Zenger not guilty.

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