Name Erland Fish | Succeeded by James G. Moran | |
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Residence 207 Mountfort Street, Brookline, Massachusetts Alma mater | ||
Erland Frederick Fish (December 7, 1883 – February 18, 1942) was a Massachusetts lawyer and politician who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate from 1933 to 1934.
Biography
Fish was born on December 7, 1883. Fish graduated from Harvard College and then Harvard Law School in 1908.
Starting in 1908, he clerked for a year for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. at the U.S. Supreme Court. Afterwards, he worked for Gaston, Snow & Saltonstall, and later his family patent law firm, Fish, Richardson & Neave, in Boston.
In 1909, Fish joined the Massachusetts National Guard and served as captain in the 101st Field Artillery Regiment in France during WW I. From 1930 to 1934 he was the commanding general of the 26th Infantry Division, also known as the Yankee Division.
On February 18, 1942, Fish died at age 59 after he was hit by a taxicab in Boston.