Stuyvesant Fish
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Stuyvesant Fish was an American businessman and member of the Fish family who served as president of the Illinois Central Railroad. He owned grand residences in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island
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"Crossways" in Newport, RI, 2010
Hamilton Fish
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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
Stuyvesant Fish
…became prominent in American high society during the Gilded Age. Stuyvesant Fish was born on June 24, 1851, in New York City. He was the third son of Hamilton Fish (1808–1893), the 16th Governor of New York, a United States senator and United States Secretary of State who is recognized as the "pillar" of the Grant…
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.