. Leslie's history of the greater New York . his term be-came United States Senator, to which officehe had been elected by the Legislature in1851. He opposed the extension of slaveryinto the Teri-itories, both as Governor and inthe Senate, and became early identified withthe Eepublican party. In the Presidentialcampaign of 1800 lie was a conspicuous sup-porter of Lincoln. With Bishop Ames he^ was constituted a United States Commissionin 1802 to visit the Federal prisoners confined at Richmond, and hesuccessfully arranged with the Confederate authorities the plan ofexchange of prisoners which c
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . his term be-came United States Senator, to which officehe had been elected by the Legislature in1851. He opposed the extension of slaveryinto the Teri-itories, both as Governor and inthe Senate, and became early identified withthe Eepublican party. In the Presidentialcampaign of 1800 lie was a conspicuous sup-porter of Lincoln. With Bishop Ames he^ was constituted a United States Commissionin 1802 to visit the Federal prisoners confined at Richmond, and hesuccessfully arranged with the Confederate authorities the plan ofexchange of prisoners which continued until the close of the into the Cabinet of President Grant as Secretary of State, in1809. he held this portfolio continuously for eight years, during bothterms of Grants administiation. The career of Hamilton Fish asSecretary of State was marked by the determination of a number ofvery gi-ave international questions. He was one of the commissionerson b(^lialf of the United States in tlic negotiation of the treaty of Wash-. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK BIOGRAPHY. 3 of 1S71; he settled llic old Northwestern boundary controversywith (Treat Britain; lie adjusted the critical questions between theUnited States and Spain i>rowin<; out of tlie Cuban insurrection,and it was at his instance that the Geneva tribunal for the settle-ment of the Alabama claims incorporated in its decisions a pro-vision securinu this country against claims for indirect damages re-sultinsi- from Fenian raids or (luban filibusterinj; expeditions. Hemarried in 1830, Julia, daughter of Peter Kean, of Ursino, N. J., andhad four married daughters—Mrs. Sidney ^^ebster, Mrs. Fred. S. , the wife of Colonel S. N. Benjamin, , and E. Eogers; an unmarried daughter, Edith Livingston, andthree sons, who are ])romin(nt citizens—Nicholas, Hamilton, Jr., andStuyvesaut Fish. FISH, NICHOLAS, eldest son of the late Hon. Hamilton Fish, hasbeen engaged in banking in t
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