Born: December 7, 1888 (Garrison, New York)
Died: January 18, 1991 (Cold Spring, New York)
Education:
- Chateau de Lancy (near Geneva, Switzerland)
- Fay School (Southboro, Massachusetts)
- 1906 St. Marks Preparatory School (Southboro, Massachusetts)
- 1909 Harvard University (Cum Laud degree in History and Government)
- 1962 Honorary Doctor of Laws from West Virginia Wesleyan College
Occupation:
- 1914-16 New York State Assembly
- 1917-1919 Captain in New York Infantry
- Led the Division of African American enlisted soldiers known as the Harlem Hellfighters in France
- 1919 Promoted to Major (March 13)
- 1919 Discharged (May 14)
- 1920-45 United States House of Representatives
Notes:
- Two Time All American Football
- 1921 (December 21) introduced the resolution which resulted in the return of the remains of the Unknown Soldier
- Received the Silver Star and the Croix e Guerre
- Inducted into the French Legion of Honor for wartime service
- 1954 College Football Hall of Fame
- Wrote Hamilton Fish: Memoir of an American Patriot, published by Regnery Publishers in 1991
Sources:
- College Football Hall of Fame: Inductees
- Pharos October 16, 1962
- Wikipedia, “Hamilton Fish III“
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PLM 6/27/2018