United States representative lawyer politician
Fish was the son of Grace Chapin and Hamilton Fish III (1888–1991), grandson of Hamilton Fish II (1849–1936) and Alfred C. Chapin, great-grandson of Hamilton Fish (1808–1893), a descendant of Lewis Morris, and a cousin of the Kean family of New Jersey politicians.
And attended the prestigious private Kent School. He graduated from Harvard University in 1949 and received an Bachelor of Laws from New York University School of Law in 1957.
See Hamilton Fish (disambiguation) for others with the same name. Fish was born in Washington, District of Columbia He also attended Harvard"s Graduate School of Public Administration. From 1951 to 1953, Fish served in Ireland as the vice consul to the nation from the United States Foreign Service.
He practiced law privately before his election to the House, and in 1961, Fish served as a lawyer for the New York State Assembly"s Judiciary Committee.
Fish was a candidate for the 90th Congress in 1966. Fish was elected as a Republican to the 91st United States Congress and was re-elected to the 12 succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1969 to January 3, 1995.
In contrast to his deeply conservative father, he was a leader of the liberal wing of the Republican party. Fish is one of several senior Congressmen who served as managers during the impeachment trials of two federal judges, Harry East. Claiborne and Alcee Hastings, in 1986 and 1988, respectively.
While in college, Fish was a member of the United States Naval Reserve. As a member of the United States. House Committee on the Judiciary in 1974, he voted in favor of the first two of the three Articles of Impeachment (for obstruction of justice and abuse of power) of President Richard Nixon.
