Spencer O. Fisher

Spencer O. Fisher

Spencer Oliver Fisher (born February 3, 1843 in Camden , Hillsdale County , Michigan , †  June 1, 1919 in Bay City , Michigan) was an American politician . Between 1885 and 1889 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Spencer Fisher attended his home public schools as well as Albion College and Hillsdale College . He then worked in West Bay City , which is now part of Bay City, in the wood and banking industries. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . He was Mayor of West Bay City between 1881 and 1884. In 1884, Fisher took a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in part, on the Grover Cleveland was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1884 Fisher was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Republican Herschel H. Hatch on March 4, 1885 . After a re-election in 1886, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1889 . In the elections of 1888 he was defeated by the Republican Frank W. Wheeler .

After he left the House of Representatives, Fisher resumed his previous activities. In 1894 he ran for the office of governor of Michigan, but lost 31.4 percent of the vote to the Republican incumbent John Tyler Rich . He died in Bay City on June 1, 1919.

Web links

• Spencer O. Fisher in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Spencer O. Fisher in the database of Find a Grave (English)