Hamilton Fish II

Hamilton Fish II
Born	(1849-03-17)March 17, 1849 Albany, New York
Died	January 15, 1936(1936-01-15) (aged 86) Aiken, South Carolina
Resting place	Saint Philip's Church Cemetery Garrison, New York
Education	Columbia College of Columbia University (1869) Columbia Law School (1873)
Parents	Julia Ursin Niemcewicz Kean Hamilton Fish

Hamilton Fish II (April 17, 1849 Albany, Albany County, New York - January 15, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life

He was the son of Julia Ursin Niemcewicz Kean and Hamilton Fish. He graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, in 1869.

He served as private secretary to his father, and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1873. He was aide-de-camp to Governor John Adams Dix.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Putnam Co.) in 1874, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896. He was the Republican leader in 1890 and Speaker in 1895 and 1896.

In 1903 he succeeded his brother Nicholas Fish II as an hereditary member of the Society of the Cincinnati.

He served as Assistant Treasurer of the United States for New York in the Administration of Theodore Roosevelt, and was elected to the US House of Representatives for a single term, from 1909-1911. He was defeated for reelection.

For many years Fish was considered to be one of the top Republican bosses in the State of New York, controlling Putnam County. He was the father of long-time Republican congressional leader Hamilton Fish III.

In 1933, Fish was on a committee that sponsored the publication in the United States of a translation of a Nazi book called Communism in Germany by Adolf Ehrt. In the prefatory note, the committee said that they did not publish it as a defense of antisemitism or the Nazi regime, but because they believed that the struggle against communism in Germany and the lessons it taught about how the people should demand more "effective measures" to defend their system of government against communists.^[1]

In the late 19th century, he purchased the Rock Lawn and Carriage House at Garrison, New York.^[2]

He died in Aiken, South Carolina in 1936.^[3] He was buried at Saint Philip's Church Cemetery in Garrison, New York.

References

1. ↑ Ehrt, Adolf Communism in Germany Berlin: General League of German Anti-Communist Associations
2. ↑ Elise M. Barry (April 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Rock Lawn and Carriage House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-11-21. 
3. ↑ http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000139

External links

• Bartleby
• The Political Graveyard
• Desmond-Fish Library Public Library co-founded by Hamilton Fish IV. Library has many Fish family artifacts, papers and portraits on display.
• LiSA (Livingston-Svirsky Archive) Contains many online documents on the Fish Family.
• Hamilton Fish II at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Hamilton Fish II at Find a Grave