Dr. William M. Hampton (died 1960) was an American physician and politician from North Carolina.
[1] In 1951, Hampton became the first African-American elected to the Greensboro, North Carolina City Council.
[2] Hampton was born in New Jersey and moved to Warnersville neighborhood of Greensboro in 1939.
He attended Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.
Because Hampton was elected to a formerly all-White City Council in a Jim Crow state, his election was a national news story and was covered by Time magazine and the New York Times.