Biography

"Fish, Hamilton, legislator, congressman, was born April 17, 1849, in Albany, N.Y. He was educated in private schools in Putnam country and in Switzerland. In 1868 he graduated from Columbia college; and in 1873 was admitted to the practice of law. In 1869-71 he was private secretary to his father, who was secretary of state of the United States under President Grant's administration. He served eleven years in the assembly of the state of New York; and in 1895 and 1896 was speaker. In 1903-08 he was assistant treasurer of the United States at New York City. During 1909-11 he was a representative from New York to the sixty-first congress as a republican."