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.
[4] Hoyt was educated at The Park School of Buffalo before attending Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
[5] After his graduation from Hamilton, Hoyt taught history for 11 years at his alma mater, the Park School, before entering politics.
[6] In 2011, Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed Sam to serve as a regional vice president of the state's economic development agency.
[7] On March 25, 1992, he suffered a heart attack during a debate in the Assembly, and died soon after in Albany Medical Center.