Jesse Hamilton is an American lawyer and politician in New York City.
15 Facts About Jesse Hamilton
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Jesse Hamilton is the Secretary of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, the official organization of the Democratic Party for Brooklyn.
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Jesse Hamilton was defeated in the September 2018 Democratic primary election by lawyer Zellnor Myrie.
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Jesse Hamilton later moved to Crown Heights, and served on the school board, as president of his block association and as president of the Rosa Parks Democratic Club.
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Jesse Hamilton was the Democratic District Leader in the 43rd Assembly District for nearly a decade.
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Jesse Hamilton served as counsel for then-Senator Eric Adams of District 20.
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On September 9,2014, Jesse Hamilton won the Democratic Party primary election to represent District 20.
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On Monday, November 7,2016, Jesse Hamilton announced that he would join the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of Democratic senators who caucused with the Senate Republican Conference, allowing the Republicans to control the chamber.
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In January 2017, after joining the IDC, Jesse Hamilton was named Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Banking - which The New York Times notes earned him a $5,500 raise.
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In 2017, Jesse Hamilton played a key role in passage of legislation to raise the age of juvenile jurisdiction for 16- and 17-year-olds, ensuring that they will not be treated as adults under the criminal justice system for misdemeanors and many felonies.
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Jesse Hamilton has advocated for an end to broken windows policing and has proposed legislation to decriminalize fare evasion on subways, buses and railroads, which would make fare evasion a civil penalty instead of a criminal penalty.
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In 2018, Jesse Hamilton introduced a bill to make it illegal for somebody to call 911 in an attempt to get somebody arrested solely on racial bias when a crime is not committed.
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Jesse Hamilton's loss was attributed to long-simmering anger with the former members of the IDC.
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Jesse Hamilton was with Eric Adam's chief advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin at the time, who had her phone seized from her possession.
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Jesse Hamilton strongly pushed for hiring Boutross to her new position by telling Cushman and Wakefield that it would lose its commission deals with the City of New York.