Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr.

Former Representative from New York's 19^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1993-1994	Representative	New York's 19^th District
1983-1992	Representative	New York's 21^st District
1973-1982	Representative	New York's 25^th District
1969-1972	Representative	New York's 28^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Fish was a centrist Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Fish’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Fish to other members of the House of Representatives in the 103^rd Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1969 to Nov 1994, Fish missed 1,256 of 12,683 roll call votes, which is 9.9%. This is worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	39^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	7	25.0%	91^st
1969 Jul-Sep	44	5	11.4%	59^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	3	3.4%	24^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	10	28.6%	82^nd
1970 Apr-Jun	73	14	19.2%	55^th
1970 Jul-Sep	75	31	41.3%	91^st
1970 Oct-Dec	78	15	19.2%	64^th
1971 Jan-Mar	21	4	19.0%	68^th
1971 Apr-Jun	88	18	20.5%	82^nd
1971 Jul-Sep	71	10	14.1%	79^th
1971 Oct-Dec	131	22	16.8%	71^st
1972 Jan-Mar	64	5	7.8%	45^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	32	28.3%	84^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	10	9.9%	66^th
1972 Oct-Oct	49	13	26.5%	82^nd
1973 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	44^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	27	14.3%	80^th
1973 Jul-Sep	129	5	3.9%	53^rd
1973 Oct-Dec	180	14	7.8%	58^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	12	15.6%	82^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	167	12	7.2%	44^th
1974 Jul-Sep	146	11	7.5%	67^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	13	9.2%	62^nd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	1	1.5%	26^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	4	2.0%	21^st
1975 Jul-Sep	144	5	3.5%	38^th
1975 Oct-Dec	190	22	11.6%	86^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	5	4.8%	52^nd
1976 Apr-Jun	267	17	6.4%	40^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	21	7.5%	57^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	3	42.9%	88^th
1977 Jan-Mar	99	3	3.0%	40^th
1977 Apr-Jun	260	52	20.0%	97^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	7	3.5%	37^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	14	10.4%	78^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	13	8.7%	62^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	11	3.7%	30^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	33	10.7%	65^th
1978 Oct-Oct	74	5	6.8%	61^st
1979 Jan-Mar	63	2	3.2%	53^rd
1979 Apr-Jun	218	23	10.6%	78^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	45	22.8%	95^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	23	12.1%	68^th
1980 Jan-Mar	147	28	19.0%	86^th
1980 Apr-Jun	193	28	14.5%	79^th
1980 Jul-Sep	191	35	18.3%	89^th
1980 Oct-Dec	66	12	18.2%	73^rd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	4	26.7%	92^nd
1981 Apr-Jun	89	11	12.4%	82^nd
1981 Jul-Sep	106	5	4.7%	51^st
1981 Oct-Dec	141	10	7.1%	62^nd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	10	20.8%	82^nd
1982 Apr-Jun	119	21	17.6%	91^st
1982 Jul-Sep	192	16	8.3%	72^nd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	10	10.1%	64^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	18^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	25	13.7%	85^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	5	3.8%	54^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	13	9.1%	73^rd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	2	3.8%	41^st
1984 Apr-Jun	223	30	13.5%	85^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	36^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	4	11.1%	73^rd
1985 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	24^th
1985 Apr-Jun	153	38	24.8%	99^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	13	12.9%	92^nd
1985 Oct-Dec	148	2	1.4%	27^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	9	14.8%	83^rd
1986 Apr-Jun	128	10	7.8%	83^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	201	10	5.0%	67^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	5	8.3%	74^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	39^th
1987 Apr-Jun	186	8	4.3%	58^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	7	4.2%	32^nd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	3	6.1%	59^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	12	7.9%	76^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	2	2.2%	51^st
1989 Jan-Mar	14	2	14.3%	84^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	1	1.0%	18^th
1989 Jul-Sep	126	8	6.3%	87^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	15	12.4%	93^rd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	56^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	12	8.0%	83^rd
1990 Jul-Sep	183	12	6.6%	82^nd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	12	8.4%	80^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	5	8.1%	85^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	3	2.2%	35^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	3	3.7%	49^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	15	9.3%	89^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	2	1.1%	21^st
1992 Jul-Sep	196	14	7.1%	83^rd
1992 Oct-Oct	41	3	7.3%	67^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	7	5.5%	77^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	3	1.6%	32^nd
1993 Jul-Sep	164	2	1.2%	36^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	1	0.7%	28^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	7	7.4%	76^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	100	45.7%	99^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	19	13.4%	89^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	10	19.6%	94^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Hamilton Fish [R-NY19, 1993-1994] leaves office as Representative for New York's 19th congressional district

Dec 01, 1994

Elections and Offices

Rep. Hamilton Fish [R-NY19, 1993-1994] takes office as Representative for New York's 19th congressional district

Jan 05, 1993

Elections and Offices

Rep. Hamilton Fish [R-NY19, 1993-1994] leaves office as Representative for New York's 21st congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Hamilton Fish [R-NY19, 1993-1994] takes office as Representative for New York's 21st congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Elections and Offices

Rep. Hamilton Fish [R-NY19, 1993-1994] leaves office as Representative for New York's 25th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982