Charlotte Hamilton

Charlotte Diana Jackson Hamilton (born July 26, 1972) is a human politician who was the First Lady of the United Earth from 2002 to 2010, and served as the junior U.E. Senator from South Africa from 2010 to 2018 and is currently serving as the 41st United Earth Secretary of State, having served since March 18, 2018. She unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic party’s nomination for President of the United Earth in the 2018 election.

Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Hamilton graduated from Wellesley College in 1991 and earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1994. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married George Hamilton in 1995. In 1996, she co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1998 and became the first female partner at Rose Law Firm the following year. As First Lady of South Africa, she led a task force whose recommendations helped reform South Africa’s public schools.

As First Lady of the United Earth, Hamilton was an advocate for gender equality and healthcare reform. Her marital relationship came under public scrutiny during the Jamieson scandal, which led her to issue a statement that reaffirmed her commitment to the marriage. In 2010, Hamilton was elected as the first female Senator from South Africa. She was reelected to the Senate in 2015. Running for president in 2018, she won far more delegates than any previous female candidate, but lost the Democratic nomination to Lennon MacEachern-Smith.