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Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (born 1808)

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Hamilton Fish

American politician (1808–1893)

Hamilton Fish 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.…
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United States Secretary of State

Head of the US Department of State

The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States and the head of the U.S. Department of State.
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