Hamer, Jesse Dewey

Arrived in Arizona about 1926. ArMA president: 1936. Dates: 1898-1966. Arizona Medical Board record: Jesse D. Hamer MD; license date: 7/30/1927; address: 15 E Monroe St Ste 910, Phoenix; area of interest: internal medicine. From ArMA website: Dr. Hamer was only 38 when he served as president of ArMA in 1936. There have been less than 10 presidents of ArMA under the age of 40. He was a long-standing delegate to the American Medical Association, and finished his career as vice-president of the AMA. http://www.azmedassn.org/hamer.html
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 158.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

JAMA, Mar 1966; 195: 1086: Hamer, Jesse Dewey; Phoenix, Ariz; born in Lyndon, Ohio, March 28, 1898; Western Reserve, 1926; past president of the Arizona Medical Association and served as governor and first vice president of the Southwestern Medical Association; served as a member of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association, its Council on Medical Service, and as Vice President; member of the silicosis and cardiac review boards, State Industrial Commission; affiliated with Good Samaritan Hospital; died Jan 13, aged 67, of a self-inflicted bullet wound.