Hubert Fisher

Hubert Fisher

Hubert Frederick Fisher (born October 6, 1877 in Milton , Santa Rosa County , Florida , †  June 16, 1941 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1917 and 1931 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Hubert Fisher attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1898 at the University of Mississippi at Oxford . Until 1901 he continued his studies at Princeton University . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1904, he began to work in Memphis (Tennessee) in his new profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In 1912 Fisher was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , where Woodrow Wilson was nominated as a presidential candidate. He served in the Tennessee Senate in 1913 and 1914 . Between 1914 and 1917, Fisher was a federal attorney for the western borough of Tennessee. In the 1916 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of his state , where he succeeded Kenneth McKellar, who had moved to the Senate , on March 4, 1917 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1931 . During this time the First World War fell . In 1919 and 1920, the 18th and 19th amendments to the constitution were passed.

In 1930, Hubert Fisher renounced another candidacy. Due to the onset of deafness, he also had to give up his profession as a lawyer. He moved to Germantown , Tennessee, where he worked as a gardener. He died on June 16, 1941 while visiting New York.

Web links

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

• Hubert Fisher in the database of Find a Grave (English)