Brian Henry Hampton was born on March 9, 1947 to Audrey Nadine Hampton and Frank Henry Hampton. He was the first born son and the third in birth order of six children to this union. He was educated in the Cleveland public school system graduating in the class of 1965 from John Adams High School. 

Brian was a veteran, serving in the Air Force during the Viet Nam era. He worked for Topeka State hospital and Santa Fe Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. He met his future wife Ruth Elaine Pettiford in 1967 and they were married in 1968. She preceded him in death after 46 +years of marriage in 2014. This union included two daughters, Evelyn and Angela and a son Frank II. He worked as a reserve officer for the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office, a patrol officer for the Topeka Police Department and a patrol and traffic officer for the Lawrence Police Department. He served as President and CEO of Commercial Security Incorporated, a security and detective agency he founded. He worked as a program director for Clarence M. Kelly Detention Services, Topeka, Kansas, a program coordinator, a licensed addiction counselor and certified polygraph examiner for DCCCA, Inc., Lawrence, Kansas, working over three years as a contract polygraph examiner for the Kansas Department of Corrections Post Conviction Sex Offender Treatment Program and an addiction counselor for Mirror, Inc., Topeka, Kansas and Topeka Treatment Center, Topeka, Kansas. He was an ordained minister and counselor to many patients, clients and friends. He was a volunteer at the Topeka Boys and Girls Club, working with community partners he started an after school snack program. He was a certified First Aid and CPR instructor and worked over twenty years as a volunteer for The American Red Cross and The American Heart Association. He worked as a Program Director and was on the Board of Directors of Lakeshore Learning Center, Topeka, Kansas.

He owned and managed with his wife and family several small businesses. He and his wife owned and operated The Record Store and The Print Shop, a promotional products and printing business for over forty years. He received an associate degree in Police Science from Kansas City Kansas Community College, a Bachelor in Criminal Justice and a Bachelor in Social Work from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas and a Master in Social Work Administration from The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. He studied abroad in St. Kitts while pursuing a doctorate degree from Bern University, New Hampshire.

He was an accomplished and published photographer and lifetime member of International Freelance Photographers Organization (IFPO). He was a correspondent and assignment photographer for American International News Service.

He was a Third Degree Mason and had been a member of Western Star Masonic Lodge #1, Lawrence, Kansas and was a member of The American Polygraph Association and The KU Alumni Association.

He enjoyed flying airplanes as a private pilot in his younger days, motorcycle touring, photography, custom picture framing, personal relationships he established through his sales contacts, exhibiting at tradeshows and traveling and working with his wife prior to her death. He enjoyed spending time with his adult children, sons-in-law and grandchildren.