The Fish family is a prominent American family, members of which became influential in politics, diplomacy, and business. The family is of English origin and is descended from Jonathan Fish (1615–1663), who was born in

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, Northamptonshire, England, and ultimately settled in the

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Notable members

* Nicholas Fish (1758–1833), soldier, politician. * Hamilton Fish (1808–1893), politician, U.S. Secretary of State. * Stuyvesant Fish Morris (1843–1928), medical doctor. * Nicholas Fish II (1846–1902), the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to

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from 1877 to 1881, the U.S. minister to

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from 1882 to 1885. * Hamilton Fish II (1849–1936), politician, U.S. Representative from New York. * Stuyvesant Fish (1851–1923), businessman, president of the

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. * Hamilton Fish III (1888–1991), politician, U.S. Representative from New York. *

Hamilton Fish Armstrong Hamilton Fish Armstrong (April 7, 1893 – April 24, 1973) was an American journalist who is known for editing ''Foreign Affairs'' from 1928 to 1972. Early life Armstrong was a member of the Fish Family of American politicians. His father w ...

(1893–1973), U.S. diplomat; an editor of ''

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''. * Hamilton Fish IV (1926–1996), politician, U.S. Representative from New York. *

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(born 1952), publisher of ''

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'' magazine and '' The Washington Spectator''.

Family tree

* Nicholas Fish (1758–1833) ∞ Elizabeth Stuyvesant (1775–1854) ** Margaret Ann Fish (1807–1877) ∞ John Neilson (1799–1851) *** Elizabeth Stuyvesant Neilson (1828–1902) ∞ Ezra Williams Howard (1818–1869) **** Thomas Howard (1862-1904) ∞ Rose Anthony Post (d. 1949) ***** Elizabeth Stuyvesant Howard (1897–1988) ∞ Robert Winthrop Kean (1893–1980). ***** Thomas Howard Howard (b. 1899) *** Mary Noel Neilson (1830–1908) *** Nicholas Fish Neilson (1832–1855) *** Margaret A. Neilson (1835–1905) *** John Neilson (1838–1903) *** Helen Neilson (1845–1927) ∞ David Maitland Armstrong (1836–1918) **** Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867–1944) **** Helen Maitland Armstrong (1869–1948) **** Edward Maitland Armstrong (1874–1915) **** Marion Howard Armstrong (1880-1957) ∞ Alfred Edey **** Noel Maitland Armstrong (1882-1938) **** Bayard Armstrong (1887–1890) ****

(1893–1973) ∞ (1) 1918: (div. 1938) Helen MacGregor Byrne ∞ (2) 1945: (div. 1951) Carman Barnes (1912–1980) ∞ (3) 1951: Christa von Tippelskirch ***** Helen MacGregor Armstrong (b. 1923) ∞ Edwin Gamble ** Susan Elizabeth Fish (1808–1892) ∞ Daniel LeRoy (1799–1885) *** Mary Augusta LeRoy (1829–1905) ∞ Edward King (1816–1875) (brother of George Gordon King) **** Edward Augustus King (1852–1878) **** Elizabeth Stuyvesant King (1855–1878) **** LeRoy King (1857–1895) ∞ Ethel Ledyard Rhinelander (1857–1925) ***** Frederic Rhinelander King (1887–1972) ∞ Edith Percy Morgan (1891–1968) **** George Gordon King (1859–1922) ∞ Annie Mackenzie Coats (1860–1939) **** Mary LeRoy King (1862–1904) **** Edith Edgar King (1864–1942) ∞ Louis Butler McCagg **** Alexander Mercer King (1870–1885) *** Elizabeth Stuyvesant LeRoy (1834–1883) ∞ George Warren Dresser (1837–1883) **** Daniel LeRoy Dresser (1862–1915) ∞ Emma Louise Burnham (b. 1870) **** Suzanne Leroy Dresser (1864–1960) ∞ Vicomte Romain D'Osmoy **** Natalie Bayard Dresser (1869–1950) ∞ John Nicholas Brown I (1861–1900) ***** John Nicholas Brown II (1900-1979) ∞ 1930: Anne Seddon Kinsolving (1906-1985) ****** Nicholas Brown (b. 1933) ∞ Diane Verne ****** John Carter Brown III (1934-2002) ∞ (1) Constance Mellon Byers (1942-1983), daughter of Richard King Mellon; ∞ (2) Pamela Braga Drexel ****** Angela Bayard Brown (b. 1938) ∞ Edwin Garvin Fischer (b. 1937), grandson of Edwin Louis Garvin **** Edith Stuyvesant Dresser (1873–1958) ∞ (1) 1898: George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914); ∞ (2) 1925: Peter Goelet Gerry (1879–1957) *****

Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, later Cecil, later Bulkely-Johnson, later Goodsir (August 22, 1900 – February 7, 1976) was an American born heiress and member of the Vanderbilt family who inherited the Biltmore Estate. She was known for her ec ...

∞ John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954) ****** George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (1925–2020) ****** William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (1928–2017) **** Pauline Georgina Dresser (b. 1876) ∞ Rev. George D. Merrill ** Hamilton Fish (1808–1893) ∞ Julia Ursin Niemcewiez Kean (1816–1887), sister of John Kean and granddaughter of John Kean and Susan Livingston (Susan married Count Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz after Kean's death) *** Sarah Morris Fish (1838–1925) ∞ Sidney Webster (1828–1910) **** Hamilton Fish Webster (1861–1939) *** Julia Kean Fish (1841–1908) ∞ Samuel Nicholl Benjamin (1839–1886) **** Elizabeth d'Hauteville Benjamin (1871–1884) **** William Massena Benjamin (1874–1928) **** Hamilton Fish Benjamin (1877–1938) **** Julian Arnold Benjamin (1877–1953) *** Susan LeRoy Fish (1844–1909) ∞ William Evans Rogers (1846–1913) *** Nicholas Fish II (1846–1902) ∞ 1869: Clemence Smith Bryce (1847–1908), sister of Lloyd Bryce **** Hamilton Fish II (1873–1898) *** Hamilton Fish II (1849–1936) ∞ (1) Emily Maria Mann (1854–1899); ∞ (2) Florence Delaplaine Amsinck (1849–1926) **** Janet Fish (1883–1970) **** Julia Kean Fish (1884–1960) ∞ William Lawrence Breese (1883–1915) ***** Hamilton Fish Breese (1910–1920) **** Emily Rosalind Fish (1886–1975) ∞ John Wilson Cutler (1887–1950) **** Hamilton Fish III (1888–1991) ∞ Grace Chapin Rogers (1885–1960), daughter of Alfred Clark Chapin; ∞ Marie Choubaroff (1905–1974); ∞ (4) 1988: Lydia Ambrogio (1932–2015) ***** Lillian Veronica Fish ∞ David Whitmire Hearst (1915–1986), son of

William Randolph Hearst William Randolph Hearst (; April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher and politician who developed the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His extravagant methods of yellow jou ...

***** Elizabeth Fish (1922-2015) ∞ Venkatesan Perry (1932-2016) ***** Hamilton Fish IV (1926–1996) ∞ (1) 1951: Julia MacKenzie (1927–1969); ∞ (2) 1971: Billy Laster Cline (1924–1985); ∞ (3) 1989: Mary Ann Tinklepaugh Knauss (b. 1930) ******

(b. 1952) ∞ Sandra Harper ****** Julia Alexandra Fish (b. 1953) ∞ Thomas Ward ****** Nicholas Stuyvesant Fish (1958–2020) ****** Peter Livingston Fish (b. 1959) **** Helena Livingston Fish (1893–1970) ∞ Henry Forster (1889–1989) ***** Henry H. Forster (1921–2000) ***** Bayard Stuyvesant Forster (1924–2001) ∞ Clare Chanler (1927–1992), granddaughter of

Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (September 24, 1869, in Newport, Rhode Island – February 28, 1942, in New York City) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the lieutenant governor of New York from 1907 to 1908. Early life He was the ...

***** Sheila Emily Forster (1928–2011) ∞ J. Anthony G. Morris *** Stuyvesant Fish (1851–1923) ∞ 1876: Marion Graves Anthon (1853–1915) **** Livingston Fish (1879–1880) **** Marian Anthon Fish (1880–1944) ∞ 1907: (div. 1934) Albert Zabriskie Gray (1881–1964), son of

John Clinton Gray John Clinton Gray (December 4, 1843 – June 28, 1915) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Early life Gray was born on December 4, 1843, in New York City. He was the son of wholesale dry goods dealer John Alexander Clinton ...

**** Stuyvesant Fish, Jr. (1883–1952) ∞ Isabelle Mildred Dick (1884–1972) ***** Peter Stuyvesant Fish (1911-1993) ∞ Florence Whistler Voorhees (1913-2001) ****** Janet Fish (1938-present) ∞ Charles Parness (1945-present) **** Sidney Webster Fish (1885–1950) ∞ (1) 1915: Olga Martha Wiborg (1890–1937), daughter of Frank Bestow Wiborg; ∞ (2) 1929: Esther Foss, daughter of Eugene Noble Foss *** Edith Livingston Fish (1856–1887) ∞ 1883 Hon. Oliver Northcote (1854–1900), young son of

Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (27 October 1818 – 12 January 1887), known as Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Baronet from 1851 to 1885, was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician. He was Chancellor of the E ...

** Elizabeth Sarah Fish (1810–1881) ∞ Richard Lewis Morris (1816–1880) *** Stuyvesant Fish Morris (1843–1928) ∞ Ellen James Van Buren (1844–1929), granddaughter of

Martin Van Buren Martin Van Buren ( ; ; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was the eighth president of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841. A primary founder of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served as Attorney General o ...

**** Elizabeth Marshall Morris (1869–1919) ∞ B. Woolsey Rogers **** Ellen Van Buren Morris (1873–1954) ∞ Francis Livingston Pell (1873–1945) **** Richard Lewis Morris III (b. 1875) ∞ Carolyn Whitney Fellowes (b. 1882) **** Stuyvesant Fish Morris, Jr. (1877–1925)

Kean family

The Fish family is related to the Kean family through Hamilton Fish's wife, Julia Ursin Niemcewiez Kean. ;Notable members * Hamilton Fish Kean (1862–1941),

New Jersey New Jersey is a U.S. state, state located in both the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the urban area, heavily urbanized Northeas ...

Republican Committeeman 1905–1919, delegate to the Republican National Convention 1916, Republican National Committeeman 1919–1928, candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey 1924, U.S. Senator from New Jersey 1929–1935. * Robert W. Kean (1893–1980), delegate to the Republican National Convention 1936, U.S. Representative from New Jersey 1939–1959, candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey 1958. *

Thomas Kean Thomas Howard Kean ( ; born April 21, 1935) is an American politician, statesman, and academic administrator from the state of New Jersey. A Republican Party (United States), Republican, Kean served two terms as the 48th governor of New Jersey f ...

(born 1935), New Jersey Assemblyman 1968–1977, Governor of New Jersey 1982–1990. * Thomas Kean Jr. (born 1968), New Jersey state senator 2003-2022 and U.S. Representative from 2023. ;Family tree * John Kean (1814–1895) m. Lucinetta "Lucy" Halsted (1825–1912), daughter of Caleb O. Halsted ** Hamilton Fish Kean (1862–1941) m. Katharine Taylor Winthrop (1866–1943), daughter Robert Winthrop *** Robert W. Kean (1893–1980) m. Elizabeth Stuyvesant Howard ****

(b. 1935) m. Deborah Bye ***** Thomas Kean, Jr. (b. 1968) m. Rhonda Lee Norton NOTE: Hamilton Fish Kean was also great-grandson of Continental Congressional Delegate John Kean and brother of U.S. Senator John Kean.

References

;Notes ;Sources *Wing, Lester Fish. ''The Fish Family in England and America''. Tuttle, 1948. 530p

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