Hamilton Fish II was an American lawyer and politician who served as Speaker of the New York State Assembly and a member of the United States House of Representatives.
Hamilton Fish was an American statesman who served as the sixteenth governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States senator from New York from 1851 to 1857, and the 26th U.S. secretary of stat
Photograph by Mathew Brady
U.S. Representative Fish depicted in an 1844 illustration
Fish as U.S. Senator
Winfield Scott and Fish dined regularly in New York during the onset of the American Civil War.