Hamilton Fish Kean


Hamilton Fish Kean was a U.S. senator from New Jersey.

Kean was born at Ursino, his ancestral estate near Elizabeth, New Jersey. He attended the public schools of Elizabeth, graduated from St. Pauls School, Concord, New Hampshire, and engaged in banking and agricultural pursuits. Kean was a member of the Republican National Committee 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 sixyear term before a failed reelection bid. After his political career, he worked in banking until his death in 1941 in New York City. He was interred in GreenWood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

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