Hamilton Fish III – courageous Soldier and sagacious Congressman

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Grand Old Partisan salutes Hamilton Fish III, born in Manhattan, December 7th 1888. His father was a Congressman and his grandfather a Governor, Senator and Secretary of State. He won election to the state house, with Theodore Roosevelt’s short-lived Progressive Party.

During WWI, Fish was major in the 'Harlem Hellfighters' – a valiant regiment of African-American soldiers. Later years, he battled against Democrat-imposed racial segregation of the military.

Beginning in 1920, as a Republican, Fish served twelve terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. At his initiative, Congress established the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Three times, he voted for bills to make lynching a federal crime. He bravely denounced FDR's socialist policies, with the goal "to stop the march toward communism and totalitarianism in America."

Hamilton Fish III lived to age 102.