Joseph Hamilton (July 14, 1826 – March 16, 1912) was an American printer, newspaper editor, and life insurance agent from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who spent two one-year terms as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly: in 1874 as a member of the short-lived People's Reform Party, also known as the Liberal Reform Party, and in 1877 as a Democrat.
[1] He was born in New York City on July 14, 1826, and received an academic education.
(Incumbent Jacob Sander, who was also part of the Liberal Reform Party, was not a candidate for re-election.)
In 1876, he was elected as a Democrat to his old seat, garnering 1,194 votes, against 921 for Republican Christian Widule (the incumbent, Fagg, was not a candidate for re-election).
[4] He was not a candidate for re-election, and was succeeded by "Reform Democrat" John C. Dick.