Hamilton Fish III

Hamilton Fish III

Hamilton Stuyvesant Fish , also Hamilton Fish III (born December 7, 1888 in Garisson, Putnam County , New York , † January 18, 1991 ) was an American politician . From 1920 to 1945 he was a Republican MP in the US House of Representatives and an opponent of Franklin D. Roosevelt .

Early life

Fish was the son of Hamilton Fish II (1848–1936) and Emily Mann, and the grandson of former US Secretary of State Hamilton Fish (1808–1893) under President Ulysses S. Grant . His great-grandfather Nicholas Fish (1758-1833) was married to Elizabeth Stuyvesant, a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant , director general of the colony Nieuw Nederland .

Like his father, he attended the Chateau de Lancy , a boarding school near Geneva . The family spent the summer in Bavaria. 1906–1909 he studied history and administration at Harvard University , then law at Harvard Law School , but broke off his studies before graduation and worked for an insurance company in New York City. Between 1914 and 1916 he was a Progressive MP in the New York State Assembly .

With the entry of the United States into the First World War , Fish joined the 369th US Infantry Regiment from Harlem , one of the first African American army units that was led by mainly white, but also a few black officers. The Harlem Hellfighters were the most famous African American regiment and stood on the Western Front in France longer than any other American regiment at 191 days , and with 1,500 casualties more than any other unit.

politics

As a Republican MP in the House of Representatives, Fish was known as an anti-communist and an opponent of Roosevelt's New Deal . In the Fish Committee from May 1930 he investigated organizations suspected of communism such as the ACLU and the presidential candidate William Z. Foster . The committee recommended that the Ministry of Justice strengthen the relevant immigration and deportation laws. Fish was a member of the Bylaws Committee, the last one he sought to chair, to initiate impeachment proceedings against Roosevelt . 1933 to 1943 he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Congress .

In contrast to President Roosevelt, Fish was a "non-interventionist" until the attack on Pearl Harbor , supported the America First Committee and was against entering the "European war" ( World War II ). Through its office manager, George Hill, the Roosevelt Fish government tried to move closer to George Sylvester Viereck and National Socialism . During Hill's trial, Time and New York Times reported allegations that Fish had accepted money from pro-Nazi sources. Fish's popularity declined, so that he set up an election office in his district for the first time for the 1944 elections, which he had held against Roosevelt for 22 years. On leaving Congress, he said, "It took most of the New Deal administration, half Moscow, $ 400,000 and Governor Dewey to beat me."

After the election defeat, Fish sued Robert F. Cutler of the Good Government Committee , which had linked him with Fritz Julius Kuhn and the American-German Bund , for defamation. Later he was spokesman for political and veterans associations for many years. In 1958 he founded the Order of Lafayette , a patriotic association in memory of American fighters in France during the First and Second World Wars.

After Fish Roosevelt, Winston Churchill , Henry Morgenthau and Douglas MacArthur survived, he published a book on the war policies of the United States before and during World War II. He was 102 years old.

Fonts

• George Washington in the Highlands, or some unwritten history . Newburgh News, Newburgh, NY 1932.
• The challenge of world communism . The Bruce publishing company, Milwaukee 1946.
• The Red plotters . Domestic and Foreign Affairs, New York 1947.
• Today's world (self-published periodical, New York 1947–1948)
• Lafayette in America during and after the Revolutionary War and other essays on Franco-American relations . Vantage Press, New York 1976. ISBN 0533023149 .
• New York State: the battleground of the Revolutionary War . Vantage Press, New York 1976. ISBN 0533021286 .
• The American people are living on top of a nuclear volcano . Vantage Press, New York 1976. ISBN 0533022363 .
• FDR, the other side of the coin: how we were tricked into World War II . Institute for Historical Review , Torrance, CA 1976. ISBN 0911038647 .
• FDR, the other side of the coin: how we were tricked into World War II . Vantage Press, New York 1976. ISBN 0533022207 .
  • English: The Broken Myth - FD Roosevelt's War Policy 1933–1945 . Grabert-Verlag , Tübingen 1982.
• An American manifesto of freedom in answer to the manifesto on Communism (1848) . Vantage Press, New York 1977. ISBN 0533022371 .
• Tragic deception: FDR and America's involvement in World War II . Devin-Adair, Old Greenwich, Conn. 1983. ISBN 0815969171 .
• Memoir of an American patriot . Regnery Gateway, Washington, DC and National Book Network, Lanham, MD 1991. ISBN 0895265311 .

Web links

• Newspaper article about Hamilton Fish III in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

References

1. ↑ " 369th Infantry Regiment" Harlem Hell Fighters " ," on BlackPast.org, accessed on 4 December 2018th
2. ^ " Last Words ", Time, January 1, 1945