Hamilton Fish III
 Hamilton Fish III    (politician) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | Hamilton Stuyvesant Fish December 7, 1888 New York, U.S. | |||||||||||||
| Died | January 18, 1991 (Age 102) New York, U.S. | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | St. Mark's School, Harvard College, Harvard | |||||||||||||
| Children | Hamilton Fish IV | |||||||||||||
US "isolationist" politician unseated by British spook campaign
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Hamilton Fish III (also known as Hamilton Fish Jr) was an American soldier, author, and politician fromNew York. He represented New York's 26th congressional district in the Hudson Valley region in the United States House of Representatives from 1920 to 1945. In the second half of his House career, Fish was a chief critic and opponent of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, especially on matters of international affairs and American entry into World War II prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Unseated by British spooks
Ron Unz wrote: {{Thomas Mahl devotes another chapter to chronicling the repeated, ultimately successful attempts by these outside forces to defeat Rep. Hamilton Fish, entrenched for decades in his Upstate New York district, who served as the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and was one of the nation’s leading opponents of foreign intervention. Large amounts of outside money regularly flowed into his district along with massive, coordinated attacks by every available media outlet, levelling the most absurd accusations, including that he was backed by Nazi agents or even one himself, with these charges sometimes based on simple forgeries. In fact, the only foreign agents involved in his campaigns were the British spies secretly coordinating the anti-Fish effort.[1]}}
