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- Family lore said that he was Librarian of the Library of Congress.
Laura Gottesman, a friend of Polly Stone who works at the Library of Congress, looked him up and found:
Philip was Born November 7, 1891, in Marion, S.C.; died April 10, 1971, in Washington, D.C. Historian and author. At the time of his death, Philip Hamer was executive director emeritus of the U.S. National Historical Publications Commission. He had previously been associated with the National Archives, and he was the author of A Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the United States. He also edited the Papers of Henry Laurens.
Laura also attached a pdf file containing the text of this obituary, thinking it might be of interest. The obituary mentions Philip Hamer, and identifies him as the "former director of the National Historical Publications Commission," but does not indicate that he was employed by the Library of Congress as well.
Laura continues:
Ah, I've just found something else via Google Book Search--you may have already seen it yourself? --it's quite an extensive profile of Philip May Hamer which appeared in the World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services
According to this source, Hamer was, among other positions, the Director of the Library Division at the National Archives (and also, was hired to work at the Archives in 1935, the year it was founded). Based on this highly detailed profile, I suspect while he may have worked closely with the Library of Congress (as the library has custody of many of the collections of Presidential Papers that he worked with over the years) he may not have ever been an official Library of Congress employee.
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1891 - 1971 (79 years)
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