Early Life, Education, and Early Career
Hampton was born in Fort Frances, Ontario to a blue collar family, George (April 17, 1928 - January 2, 2006) and Elsie (b. November 8, 1931) Hampton. He was a good student, but also athletically gifted and politically active. He first joined the NDP when he was a teenager.
Hampton took an undergraduate degree in philosophy and religion from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where he played for the school's Division I NCAA ice hockey team. He later obtained a degree in education from the University of Toronto and a law degree from the University of Ottawa. He worked as a lawyer for the Canadian Labour Congress, and for the provincial NDP government of Allan Blakeney in Saskatchewan.
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