Fish.

Fish. HAMILTON, American diplomatist, was born in New York city in 1808, graduated at Columbia, and was admitted to the bar there in 1830. A Whig in politics, he was elected a congressman in 1842, lieutenant-governor of the state in 1847, and governor in 1848. In 1851 he was returned to the United States senate, where he acted with the Republican party. He was secretary of state under Grant from 1869 to 1877, signing, as one of the commissioners, the Washington Treaty of 1871, and carrying through the settlement of the Alabama Question (q.v.). He retired in 1877, and died 7th September 1893.