Hamilton Fish IV

Hamilton Fish IV ( born June 3, 1926 in Washington DC, † 23 July 1996 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1969 and 1995 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hamilton Fish IV graduated from the Kent School in Connecticut. He was 1944-1946 in the United States Naval Reserve. In 1949, he graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts. He was 1951-1953 Vice Consul in Ireland for the United States Foreign Service. After his return to the United States, he studied law at the New York University School of Law, where he in 1957 his Bachelor of Laws made ​​. Then he attended the John F. Kennedy School of Public Administration. He received his license to practice law in New York. In 1961 he was Attorney for the New York Assembly Judiciary Committee in Albany. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1968 for the 91st Congress Fish was the 28th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Y. Resnick on January 4, 1969. He was re-elected once. In 1972 he stood as a candidate in the 25th electoral district of New York for the 93rd Congress. After a successful election, he entered on January 4, 1973, to succeed Peter A. Peyser. He was re-elected four times in a row. In the congressional elections of 1982, the 98th Congress, he was elected in 21 electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Robert García on January 4, 1983. He was re-elected four times in a row. Fish ran in 1992 in the 19th electoral district of New York for the 103rd Congress. After a successful election, he stepped on 4 January 1993 the successor of Eliot Engel. Since he gave up for reelection in 1994, he retired after January 3, 1995 from the Congress. During his time he took Congress in 1984 as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Dallas in part. The U.S. House of Representatives called him twice to one of the leaders who led impeachment proceedings: 1986 against Harry E. Claiborne, judge of the United States District Court for Nevada, and in 1988 against Alcee Hastings, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

He died on 23 July 1996 in Washington, D.C. and on the Cemetery of St. Philip 's Church - in-the- Highlands was then buried in Garrison.