Hamilton Fish Autographs

Hamilton Fish (August 3, 1808 – September 7, 1893) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 16th 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. Grant and recognized as the pillar of Grant's presidency. He is considered one of the nation's most effective U.S. secretaries of state by scholars, known for his judiciousness and efforts towards reform and diplomatic moderation. He settled the controversial Alabama Claims with the United Kingdom, developing the concept of international arbitration and avoided war with Spain over Cuban independence by coolly handling the volatile Virginius incident. He also organized a peace conference and treaty between South American countries and Spain. In 1875, Fish negotiated a reciprocal trade treaty for sugar production with the Kingdom of Hawai'i, initiating the process which ended in the 1893 overthrow of the House of Kalākaua and statehood. Fish worked with James Milton Turner to settle the Liberia-Grebo War in 1876.
Fish came from prominence and wealth. His Dutch American family was long-established in New York City. He attended Columbia College and later passed the New York state bar. Initially working as commissioner of deeds, he ran unsuccessfully for New York State Assembly as a Whig candidate in 1834. After marrying, he returned to politics and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1843. Fish ran for New York's lieutenant governor in 1846, falling to a Democratic Anti-Rent Party contender. When the office was vacated in 1847, Fish ran and was elected to the position. In 1848, he ran and was elected governor of New York, serving one term. In 1851, he was elected U.S. Senator for New York, serving one term. Fish gained valuable experience serving on Committee on Foreign Relations. Fish was a moderate on the question of maintaining or dissolving slavery; he opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery.
After traveling to Europe, Fish returned to the United States and supported Abraham Lincoln, the Republican nominee for president in the 1860 U.S. presidential election. During the American Civil War, Fish raised money for the Union war effort and served on Lincoln's presidential commission that made successful arrangements for Union and Confederate troop prisoner exchanges. Fish returned to his law practice after the Civil War, and was thought to have retired from political life. When Ulysses S. Grant was elected president in 1868, he appointed Fish as U.S. secretary of state in 1869. Fish took on the State Department with vigor, reorganized the office, and established civil service reform. During his tenure, Fish had to contend with Cuban belligerency, the settlement of the Alabama claims, Canada–U.S. border disputes, and the Virginius incident. Fish implemented the new concept of international arbitration, where disputes between countries were settled by negotiations, rather than military conflicts. Fish was involved in a political feud between U.S. senator Charles Sumner and President Grant in the latter's unsuccessful efforts to annex the Dominican Republic. Fish organized a naval expedition in an unsuccessful attempt to open trade with Korea in 1871. Leaving office and politics in 1877, Fish returned to private life and continued to serve on various historical associations. Fish died quietly of old age in his luxurious New York State home in 1893.
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Traded items with a signature of Hamilton Fish

The most expensive item with a signature of Hamilton Fish ( PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN / HAMILTON FISH AUTO SIGNED LETTER JSA + PSA MINT 9) was sold in May 2020 for $15,000.00 while the cheapest item (CARL VINSON SIGNED 1943 Letter To Hamilton Fish from Naval Affairs Committee) found a new owner for $0.99 in November 2015. The month with the most items sold (3) was April 2014 with an average selling price of $4.99 for an autographed item of Hamilton Fish. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2019 with $275.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was December 2014. In average, an autographed item from Hamilton Fish is worth $38.09.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Hamilton Fish were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	1870, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, signed passport, great watermark	$115.50
	1870, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, signed passport, great watermark	$115.50
	1872 Passport Document Civil War Colonel Signed by Hamilton Fish Great Watermark	$150.00
	1885 American Politician HAMILTON FISH - Autographed 3.75 x 2.25" Card	$75.00
	1885 American Politician HAMILTON FISH - Autographed 3.75 x 2.25" Card	$75.00
	2018 HISTORIC AUTOGRAPHS POTUS Cut Signature Hamilton Fish Secy State 1969	$50.00
	2018 HISTORIC AUTOGRAPHS POTUS Cut Signature Hamilton Fish Secy State 1969	$50.00
	Hamilton Fish Politican Secretary of State Signed Autograph Cut PSA DNA	$64.99
	Hamilton Fish Politican Secretary of State Signed Autograph Cut PSA DNA	$64.99
	Hamilton Fish signature, Secretary of State 1869-77	$74.95
	Hamilton Fish signature, Secretary of State 1869-77	$74.95
	Hamilton Fish signed letter 26th US Secretary of State under Grant & Hayes	$34.06
	Hamilton Fish signed letter 26th US Secretary of State under Grant & Hayes	$34.06
	Hamilton Fish, Signed Check to His Son Nicholas, 1892, Bank of New York	$38.51
	Hamilton Fish, Signed Check to His Son Nicholas, 1892, Bank of New York	$38.51