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Hamilton Fish

1808 - 1893

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Hamilton Fish (August 3, 1808 – September 7, 1893) 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 state from 1869 to 1877. Fish was the most trusted advisor to President Ulysses S. Grant and recognized as the pillar of Grant's presidency. He is considered one of the nation's most effective U.S. secretaries of state by scholars, known for his judiciousness and efforts towards reform and diplomatic moderation. He settled the controversial Alabama Claims with the United Kingdom, developing the concept of international arbitration and avoided war with Spain over Cuban independence by coolly handling the volatile Virginius incident. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hamilton Fish is the 15,545th most popular politician (up from 15,858th in 2019), the 8,401st most popular biography from United States (up from 8,737th in 2019) and the 638th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hamilton Fish ranks 15,545 out of 19,576. Before him are Ceolwulf I of Mercia, José Hilario López, Adnan Badran, Aleksander Prystor, Robert Buron, and Klaus Schütz. After him are Agnimitra, Günther Oettinger, Aileen Baviera, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, Jorge Quiroga, and Neven Mimica.

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Among people born in 1808, Hamilton Fish ranks 66. Before him are Manuel Isidoro Belzu, Wendela Hebbe, Michael William Balfe, José Rufino Echenique, Hugh Falconer, and Frederik Kaiser. After him are Philipp Christoph Zeller, José María Urvina, Agustín Morales, José María Linares, Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, and Teréz Karacs. Among people deceased in 1893, Hamilton Fish ranks 79. Before him are Lucy Stone, Louis Ruchonnet, Ali bin Said of Zanzibar, Constantin von Wurzbach, Ion Emanuel Florescu, and Aleksey Pleshcheyev. After him are John William Casilear, Edwin Booth, Edmund Kirby Smith, John Ballance, Aleksandra Potanina, and Francis Parkman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hamilton Fish ranks 8,403 out of 20,380. Before him are Ninja (1991), Commodore Cochran (1902), Whitney Smith (1940), Harve Presnell (1933), Mark Snow (1946), and Jimmy Giuffre (1921). After him are Mary Carey (1980), Toni Basil (1943), Edward Moore (1897), Jonathan Pollard (1954), Curly Howard (1903), and Charles Kieffer (1910).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Hamilton Fish ranks 638. Before him are Sylvia Mathews Burwell (1965), John Langdon (1741), Lloyd Bentsen (1921), James Brady (1940), John P. Kennedy (1795), and Whitney Smith (1940). After him are Robert Bacon (1860), Henry Dearborn (1751), Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886), George Pataki (1945), William L. Marcy (1786), and Andrew Cuomo (1957).

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