Hamilton Fish Kean was a U.S. senator

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 from New Jersey

New Jersey

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Kean was the son of Lucy (née

Married and maiden names

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 Halstead) and John Kean. He was related to several prominent American politicians including his great-grandfather John Kean

John Kean (South Carolina)

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 (1756–1795), his brother John Kean

John Kean (New Jersey)

John Kean was an American lawyer, banker and Republican Party politician from Elizabeth, New Jersey. He represented New Jersey in the U.S. Senate from 1899 to 1911 and served two separate terms in the United States House of Representatives, from 1883 to 1885, and from 1887 to 1889...

 (1852–1914), and his son Robert Kean

Robert Kean

Robert Winthrop Kean was a Republican politician who represented New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives for twenty years.-Biography:...

. He was named after his great uncle Hamilton Fish

Hamilton Fish

Hamilton Fish was an American statesman and politician who served as the 16th Governor of New York, United States Senator and United States Secretary of State. Fish has been considered one of the best Secretary of States in the United States history; known for his judiciousness and reform efforts...

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Kean was born at "Ursino", his ancestral estate near Elizabeth, New Jersey

Elizabeth, New Jersey

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

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, and engaged in banking and agricultural pursuits. Kean was a member of the Republican National Committee

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 from 1919 to 1928. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator in 1924 and was elected to the Senate in 1928, serving a single six-year term before a failed re-election bid. After his political career, he worked in banking until his death in 1941 in New York City

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. He was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery

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 in Brooklyn

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