Hamilton Fish Kean (February 27, 1862December 27, 1941) was a U.S. Senator from

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Early life

Kean was the son of Lucy (

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Halstead) and John Kean. He was related to several prominent American politicians including his great-grandfather John Kean (1756–1795), his brother John Kean (1852–1914). He was named after his great-uncle

Hamilton Fish Hamilton Fish (August 3, 1808September 7, 1893) was an American politician 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 United States Secretary of State ...

. Kean was born at "Ursino", his ancestral estate near

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. He attended the public schools of Elizabeth, graduated from St. Paul's School,

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Career

Kean engaged in banking and agricultural pursuits. In 1893, along with Robert V. Van Cortlandt he formed the investment firm of Kean & Van Cortlandt, which later became Kean, Taylor & Co. From 1919 to 1928, Kean was a member of the

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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for

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in 1924 and was elected to the Senate in 1928, serving a single six-year term before a failed re-election bid, losing to former Governor A. Harry Moore. After his political career, he worked in banking until his death in 1941. Kean was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Commercial Title and Mortgage Guarantee Company, the Associated Company, the Lawyers Title Guarantee Company of New Jersey, and the Plainfield-Union Water Company

Personal life

On January 12, 1888, Kean was married to Katharine Taylor Winthrop (1866–1943). Katharine was the daughter of banker Robert Winthrop and Katherine (née Taylor) Winthrop and the sister of

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, who served as Asst. Secretary of the Navy and Asst. Secretary of the Treasury. The Winthrops were descendantants of

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, the Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the

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. Together, they were the parents of: * John Kean (1888–1949) * Robert Winthrop Kean (1893–1980), who married Elizabeth Stuyvesent Howard (1898–1988). Kean died on December 27, 1941 at St. Luke's Hospital in

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. After a funeral at Grace Church in New York, he was interred in

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in Brooklyn.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kean, Hamilton Fish 1862 births 1941 deaths Fish family Politicians from Elizabeth, New Jersey Republican Party United States senators from New Jersey New Jersey Republicans

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