Years of Service: 1851-1855; 1855-1857 Party: Whig; Opposition
FISH, Hamilton, (father of Hamilton Fish
[1849-1936], grandfather of Hamilton Fish [1888- ], and great-grandfather of
Hamilton Fish, Jr. [1926- ]), a Representative and a Senator from New York; born
in New York City August 3, 1808; attended Doctor Bancel’s French School, New
York City; graduated from Columbia College, New York City, in 1827; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1830 and practiced in New York City; commissioner of
deeds for the city and county of New York 1832-1833; elected as a Whig to the
Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection to the Twenty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law; lieutenant
governor of New York 1848-1849; Governor of New York 1849-1850; elected to the
United States Senate and served from March 4, 1851, to March 3, 1857; was not a
candidate for reelection; president general of the Society of the Cincinnati
from 1854 until his death; appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as one of the
board of commissioners for the relief and exchange of Union prisoners of war in
the South; president of the New-York Historical Society 1867-1869; appointed by
President Ulysses Grant as Secretary of State 1869-1877; resumed the practice of
law and managed his large real estate holdings in New York City; died in
Garrison, N.Y., September 7, 1893; interment in the cemetery of St. Philip’s
Church-in-the-Highlands, Garrison, N.Y. - Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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The United Colonies 1st
government began in a Philadelphia Tavern
and the United States 1st federal government ended in a
NYC Tavern!
The Founders convened the government in 11 different capitol buildings and
experienced 15 years of challenges that
included war,
hyper-inflation, a failed
constitution, judicial corruption, armed citizen and U.S. Army rebellions.
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