Sadly and suddenly, we lost Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish. Few fully appreciated the depth of his family history. Fish’s father was a member of Congress, Rep. Hamilton Fish IV of New York, who served from 1969 to 1995. He defeated G. Gordon Liddy in the 1968 primary and went on to win the general election. He was a Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee who voted for articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon.
Fish’s grandfather was Rep. Hamilton Fish III, who served in Congress from 1920 to 1945 and was the prime sponsor of the bill to authorize the construction of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Fish’s great-grandfather was Rep. Hamilton Fish II, who served one term in Congress from 1909 to 1911.
Fish’s great-great-grandfather was the original Hamilton Fish. He was governor of New York from 1849-50, a U.S. senator from 1851-57, and President Ulysses S. Grant’s secretary of state from 1869 to 1877.
Nick Fish’s great-great-great grandfather was Col. Nicholas Fish, who served in the Revolutionary War alongside his good friend Alexander Hamilton, for whom the colonel’s son was named. In John Trumbull's famous painting, “Surrender of Lord Cornwallis,” Col. Fish can be seen in the bottom row at the far right.
Rather than broadcast his family’s past, Commissioner Fish dedicated his precious time to improving Portland’s future. Portlanders were lucky to have him.
Doug Pahl, Portland
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