Hamilton Fish III
| Hamilton Fish III | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 26th district |
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In office November 2, 1920 – January 3, 1945 |
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| Preceded by | Edmund Platt |
| Succeeded by | Peter A. Quinn |
| Member of the New York State Assembly from the Putnam district |
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In office January 1, 1914 – December 31, 1916 |
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| Preceded by | John R. Yale |
| Succeeded by | John P. Donohoe |
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Hamilton Stuyvesant Fish III December 7, 1888 Garrison, New York, United States |
| Died | January 18, 1991 (aged 102) Cold Spring, New York, United States |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
Hamilton Fish III (born Hamilton Stuyvesant Fish and also known as Hamilton Fish, Jr.; December 7, 1888 – January 18, 1991) was a soldier and Republican politician from New York State. Born into a family long active in the state, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1920 to 1945 and during that time was a prominent opponent of United States intervention in foreign affairs and was a critic of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. When Fish celebrated his 102nd birthday in 1990, he was the oldest living American who had served in Congress.
Fish was born Hamilton Stuyvesant Fish in Garrison, Putnam County, New York to the former Republican U.S. Representative Hamilton Fish II and the former Emily Mann. His paternal grandfather, Hamilton Fish, was United States Secretary of State under the Republican President Ulysses S. Grant. The father of the first Hamilton Fish, Nicholas Fish (born 1758), was an officer in the Continental Army and was later appointed adjutant general of New York by Governor George Clinton.
The wife of Nicholas Fish was Elizabeth Stuyvesant, a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, who was the Dutch colonial governor of New York. Through his mother, Emily Mann, Hamilton Fish III was also a descendant of Thomas Hooker, who settled Hartford, Connecticut in 1636. Fish's uncle Elias Mann was a judge and three-term mayor of Troy, New York.
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