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{{Bio
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|Nome = Nicholas Fish II
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|Sesso = M
|LuogoNascita = New York
|GiornoMeseNascita = 19 febbraio
|AnnoNascita = 1846
|LuogoMorte = New York
|GiornoMeseMorte = 16 settembre
|AnnoMorte = 1902
|Attività = diplomatico
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|Nazionalità = statunitense
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==Biografia==
Era il figlio di [[Hamilton Fish]], e di sua moglie, Julia Ursin Kean<ref name="1893Tribute">{{citeCita news|titletitolo=City's Tribute to Hamilton Fish.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1893/09/14/archives/citys-tribute-to-hamilton-fish.html|accessdateaccesso=4 Januarygennaio 2018|workopera=[[The New York Times]]|datedata=14 Septembersettembre 1893}}</ref>. Suo padre fu [[governatore di New York]], senatore degli Stati Uniti da New York e [[Segretario di Stato degli Stati Uniti d'America|segretario di stato]] sotto i presidenti [[Ulysses S. Grant]] e [[Rutherford B. Hayes]].
Suo zio materno era il senatore [[John Kean (politico 1852)|John Kean]] ed era un pronipote dei membri del Congresso continentale [[John Kean (politico 1756)|John Kean]] e Susan Livingston Kean (lei stessa figlia del tesoriere dello Stato di New York [[Peter Van Brugh Livingston]]<ref name="Livingston1910"/>). I suoi nonni paterni erano [[Nicholas Fish]] ed Elizabeth Stuyvesant, una discendente di [[Peter Stuyvesant]]<ref name="Livingston1910">{{citeCita booklibro|last1cognome1=Livingston|first1nome1=E. Brockholst|titletitolo=The Livingstons of Livingston Manor; Being the History of that Branch of the Scottish House of Callendar Which Settled in the English Province of New York During the Reign of Charles the Second; and also including an Account of Robert Livingston of Albany, "The Nephew," a Settler in the Same Province and His Principal Descendants|datedata=1910|publishereditore=The Knickerbocker Press|isbn=9785872064213978-5-87206-421-3|pagep=541|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=698IAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA541|accessdateaccesso=4 Januarygennaio 2018|languagelingua=en}}</ref>.
Frequentò la [[Columbia University]]<ref name="Columbia1902">{{citeCita booklibro|titletitolo=Columbia University Quarterly, Vol. 5|datedata=1902|pagep=249|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HUEjAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA249|accessdateaccesso=4 Januarygennaio 2018|languagelingua=en}}</ref> e la [[Harvard Law School]]<ref name="Harvard1903">{{citeCita booklibro|last1cognome1=Thayer|first1nome1=William Roscoe|last2cognome2=Castle|first2nome2=William Richards|last3cognome3=Howe|first3nome3=Mark Antony De Wolfe|last4cognome4=Pier|first4nome4=Arthur Stanwood|last5cognome5=Voto|first5nome5=Bernard Augustine De|last6cognome6=Morrison|first6nome6=Theodore|titletitolo=The Harvard Graduates' Magazine|datedata=1903|publishereditore=Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association|pagep=307|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDJYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA307|accessdateaccesso=4 Januarygennaio 2018|languagelingua=en}}</ref>.
==Carriera==
Dopo essersi laureato in giurisprudenza, esercitò la professione legale a [[New York City]], per poi passare al servizio diplomatico<ref name="Herringshaw1909"/>.
Nominato come secondo segretario della Legazione a [[Berlino]] (1871), divenne segretario (1874) e fu ambasciatore in [[Svizzera]] (1877-1881) e poi in [[Belgio]] (1882-1886). Ritornò a New York City nel [[1887]] e divenne membro della società bancaria di ''Harriman & Co.'' a 120 Broadway, di cui suo fratello [[Stuyvesant Fish|Stuyvesant]] era il presidente<ref name="Herringshaw1909"/>.
Dopo la morte di suo padre, divenne membro della New York [[Society of Cincinnati]] nel [[1894]] e in seguito prestò servizio come presidente della New York Society<ref name="Herringshaw1909">{{citeCita booklibro|last1cognome1=Herringshaw|first1nome1=Thomas William|titletitolo=Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits ...|datedata=1909|publishereditore=American Publishers' Association|pagep=452|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JL3TAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA452|accessdateaccesso=4 Januarygennaio 2018|languagelingua=en}}</ref>, nonché membro della [[New-York Historical Society]] e dell'[[Union Club of the City of New York]], a partire dal [[1873]]<ref name="1902Killing">{{citeCita news|titletitolo=NICHOLAS FISH WAS KILLED BY VIOLENCE; Coroner, After Autopsy, Says a Fall Not Sufficient. THREE ARRESTS IN THE CASE Private Detective Sharkey Held in $10,000 Bail and Two Women Detained as Witnesses of the Fatal Quarrel.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/09/17/archives/nicholas-fish-was-killed-by-violence-coroner-after-autopsy-says-a.html|accessdateaccesso=4 Januarygennaio 2018|workopera=[[The New York Times]]|datedata=17 Septembersettembre 1902}}</ref>.
==Matrimonio==
Nel [[1869]], Fish sposò Clemence Smith Bryce (1847–1908)<ref name="MrsNFObit1908">{{citeCita news|titletitolo=MRS. NICHOLAS FISH DIES IN WASHINGTON; Widow of New York Banker and Diplomat Succumbs to a Second Stroke of Apoplexy. MOTHER OF HAMILTON FISH Her Son Was Killed in the Spanish War--Social Rival of Her Sister-in-Law, Mrs. Stuyvsant Fish.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/12/12/archives/mrs-nicholas-fish-dies-in-washington-widow-of-new-york-banker-and.html|accessdateaccesso=4 Januarygennaio 2018|workopera=[[The New York Times]]|datedata=12 Decemberdicembre 1908}}</ref>, figlia del maggiore [[James Smith Bryce]]<ref name="1902Killing"/>. Ebbero due figli:
* Elizabeth Fish (1870–1954)<ref name="ESCPObit1954">{{citeCita news|titletitolo=Mrs. R. B. Potter|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/10/08/archives/mrs-r-b-potter.html|accessdateaccesso=4 Januarygennaio 2018|workopera=[[The New York Times]]|datedata=8 Octoberottobre 1954}}</ref>, sposò Robert Burnside Potter;
* [[Hamilton Fish II]] (1873–1898)<ref name="1898Funeral">{{citeCita news|titletitolo=HAMILTON FISH'S FUNERAL; Buried with Military Honors After Impressive Services in St. Mark's Church. WOUNDED SOLDIERS PRESENT Interment at Garrisons-on-the-Hudson, Where Volleys Were Fired Over the Grave and "Taps" Were Sounded.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1898/07/30/archives/hamilton-fishs-funeral-buried-with-military-honors-after-impressive.html|accessdateaccesso=4 Januarygennaio 2018|workopera=[[The New York Times]]|datedata=30 Julyluglio 1898}}</ref>.
Vissero al 53 Irving Place vicino a [[Grammercy Park]] a [[New York City]]<ref name="1894Abuse">{{citeCita news|titletitolo=HE ABUSED BANKER FISH.; A Mendicant Turns On a Torrent of Vicious Language When Refused Alms.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1894/01/17/archives/he-abused-banker-fish-a-mendicant-turns-on-a-torrent-of-vicious.html|accessdateaccesso=4 Januarygennaio 2018|workopera=[[The New York Times]]|datedata=January 17, gennaio 1894}}</ref> e mantennero una residenza a [[Tuxedo Park]]<ref name="1902Killing"/>.
==Morte==
Fish venne aggredito a [[New York City]] il 16 settembre [[1902]] dopo aver trascorso diverse ore in compagnia di due donne nel salone ''Ehrhard Brothers'' in 265 West 34th Street, al largo di Eighth Avenue<ref name="1902Murder">{{citeCita news|titletitolo=NICHOLAS FISH FOUND SENSELESS, DIES LATER; Skull Fractured After a Visit to a Saloon. Mrs. Fish at the Banker's Bedside in Roosevelt Hospital Until the End -- How He Received His Injuries a Mystery.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/09/16/archives/nicholas-fish-found-senseless-dies-later2-skull-fractured-after-a.html|accessdateaccesso=4 Januarygennaio 2018|workopera=[[The New York Times]]|datedata=16 Septembersettembre 1902}}</ref>. Morì a causa di un trauma da forza contundente alla testa dopo essere stato colpito mentre usciva dal salone<ref name="1902Sharkey">{{citeCita news|titletitolo=CORONER HOLDS SHARKEY FOR KILLING MR. FISH; Two Witnesses Testify to Seeing Fatal Blow Struck. Women in the Banker's Company Say They Went Away When Fatal Quarrel Was Started.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/09/23/archives/coroner-holds-sharkey-for-killing-mr-fish-two-witnesses-testify-to.html|accessdateaccesso=4 Januarygennaio 2018|workopera=[[The New York Times]]|datedata=23 Septembersettembre 1902}}</ref><ref name="1902Witness">{{citeCita news|titletitolo=ANOTHER FISH CASE WITNESS.; Sharkey Says He Struck but One Blow -- The Funeral at St. Mark's.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/09/18/archives/another-fish-case-witness-sharkey-says-he-struck-but-one-blow-the.html|accessdateaccesso=4 Januarygennaio 2018|workopera=[[The New York Times]]|datedata=18 Septembersettembre 1902}}</ref>. Thomas J. Sharkey è stato condannato per omicidio colposo e successivamente condannato a dieci anni di carcere. Fish fu sepolto nel cimitero di [[St. Philip's Church in the Highlands|Saint Philip's Church]] a [[Garrison (New York)|Garrison]], [[New York]]<ref name="Herringshaw1909"/>.
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