{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Hamilton F. Kean | image = Hamiltonkean.jpg | jr/sr = United States Senator | state = New Jersey | term_start = March 4, 1929 | term_end = January 3, 1935 | predecessor = Edward I. Edwards | successor = A. Harry Moore | birth_name = Hamilton Fish Kean | birth_date = {{birth date|1862|2|27}} | birth_place = Elizabeth, New Jersey, US | death_date = {{death date and age|1941|12|27|1862|2|27}} | death_place = New York City, US | education = St. Paul's School | party = Republican | parents = John Kean<br>Lucinetta Halsted | spouse = {{marriage|Katharine Taylor Winthrop|January 12, 1888}} | children = John Kean<br>Robert Winthrop Kean | relations = Caleb O. Halsted (grandfather)<br>John Kean (brother) }} '''Hamilton Fish Kean''' (February 27, 1862{{spaced ndash}}December 27, 1941)<ref name="HFKObit1941"/> was a U.S. senator from New Jersey.<ref name="HFKbioguide"/>

==Early life== Kean was the son of Lucy (née Halsted) and Col. John Kean. He was related to several prominent American politicians including his great-grandfather John Kean (1756–1795), who served in Congress under the Articles of Confederation, and his brother, fellow U.S. Senator John Kean (1852–1914). His maternal grandfather was Caleb O. Halsted, president of the Bank of the Manhattan Company. He was named after his great-uncle, U.S. Senator and future U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish.<ref name="HFKbioguide"/>

Kean was born at "Ursino", his ancestral estate near Elizabeth, New Jersey. He attended the public schools of Elizabeth, graduated from St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire.<ref name="HFKbioguide"/>

==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.<ref name="HFKObit1941"/>

From 1919 to 1928, Kean was a member of the Republican National Committee. 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, losing to Governor A. Harry Moore.<ref name="HFKObit1941"/>

After his political career, he worked in banking until his death in 1941.<ref name="HFKbioguide"/> 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<ref name="HFKObit1941"/>

==Personal life== On January 12, 1888, Kean was married to Katharine Taylor Winthrop (1866–1943).<ref name="HFKObit1941"/> Katharine was the daughter of banker Robert Winthrop and Katherine (née Taylor) Winthrop and the sister of Beekman Winthrop, who served as Asst. Secretary of the Navy and Asst. Secretary of the Treasury. The Winthrops were descendants of John Winthrop, the Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Together, they were the parents of:<ref name="HFKObit1941"/>

* John Kean (1888–1949)<ref name="JKObit1949">{{cite news|title=JOHN KEAN, BANKER IN NEW JERSEY, 60; President of National State in Elizabeth, a Leader in Utilities Field, Dies|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05E5DD1E3BE23BBC4D51DFB6678382659EDE|access-date=2 April 2018|work=The New York Times|date=25 October 1949}}</ref> * Robert Winthrop Kean (1893–1980),<ref name=Cook>{{cite news|last1=Cook|first1=Joan|title=Robert W. Kean, 86; Formerly in House; Jersey Republican Won Reputation as Expert on Social Security|newspaper=New York Times|date=24 September 1980|access-date=11 January 2015|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/09/24/archives/robert-w-kean-86-formerly-in-house-jersey-republican-won-reputation.html |quote=Robert Winthrop Kean, a former United States Representative and for years a leading figure in Republican politics in New Jersey, died Sunday in St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, N.J., from a heart attack. He was 86 years old and lived in Livingston.}}</ref> who married Elizabeth Stuyvesent Howard (1898–1988).

Kean died on December 27, 1941, at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City.<ref name="HFKObit1941">{{cite news|title=EX-SENATOR KEAN OF NEW JERSEY DIES; Banker and Republican Leader of Century Served Term in Washington, 1928-34 DEFEATED BY A.H. MOORE Member National Committee, 1916-28, Aided Nomination of Charles Evans Hughes|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/12/28/99266169.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=ArticleEndCTA&region=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article&pageNumber=29|access-date=2 April 2018|work=The New York Times|date=28 December 1941|language=en}}</ref> After a funeral at Grace Church in New York,<ref name="1941Notice">{{cite news|title=DIED.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/29/archives/obituary-1-no-title.html|access-date=2 April 2018|work=The New York Times|date=29 December 1941}}</ref> he was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.<ref name="HFKbioguide">{{cite web|title=KEAN, Hamilton Fish - Biographical Information|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000026|website=bioguide.congress.gov|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{CongBio|K000026}}

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