Charles Fisher (politician, 1789)

Charles Fisher (born October 20, 1789 in Salisbury , Rowan County , North Carolina , †  May 7, 1849 in Hillsboro , Mississippi ) was an American politician . Between 1819 and 1821 and again from 1839 to 1841 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Fisher was privately tutored in Raleigh . After later studying law, he was admitted to the bar; but he did not practice this profession. Politically, Fisher joined the Democratic Republican Party . In 1818 he entered the North Carolina Senate . After the death of MP George Mumford , Fisher was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on February 11, 1819. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1821 . In 1820 he renounced another candidacy.

Between 1821 and 1836 Fisher sat as a member of the House of Representatives from North Carolina , whose speaker he was in 1831 and 1832. After the dissolution of his party in the 1820s, he joined the Democratic Party founded in 1828 by later President Andrew Jackson . In 1835 he was a member of a convention to revise the North Carolina constitution. In the congressional elections of 1838 Fisher was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the tenth district of his state, where he replaced Abraham Rencher on March 4, 1839 . Since he was no longer running in 1840, he could only spend one further legislative term in Congress until March 3, 1841.

After his final resignation from the US House of Representatives, Charles Fisher withdrew from politics. He died on May 7, 1849 while visiting Mississippi.

Web links

• Charles Fisher in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)