George P. Fisher

George Purnell Fisher ( born October 13, 1817 in Milford, Delaware, † February 10, 1899 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1863 he represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Fisher attended the public schools in Kent County and the Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg (Maryland). Then he studied until 1838 at Dickinson College in Carlisle (Pennsylvania). After studying law and its made ​​in 1841 admitted to the bar he began in Dover to work in his new profession.

At the time, Fisher was a member of the Whig party. From 1843-1844, he was a deputy to the House of Representatives from Delaware. In 1846 he was managing as Secretary of State official of the State Government of Delaware. In 1849 he became private secretary of State John M. Clayton. In 1850 he was appointed by President Zachary Taylor as nominee for American demands on the state Brazil. This office he held until 1852. Between 1857 and 1860, Fisher was Attorney General of Delaware. After the dissolution of the Whigs, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

In 1860 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrat William G. Whiteley on March 4, 1861. As he very nearly with only 37 votes to lose the next elections in 1862 difference from William Temple, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1863. After this time, Fisher was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to the judge at the District Court of the Federal District. This office he held until 1870. Afterwards it was until 1875 the district prosecutor in Washington. Then he returned to Dover. In 1889, President Benjamin Harrison appointed him to the Auditor of the Treasury. This office practiced Fisher from 1893 until; then he withdrew into retirement. Fisher died on 10 February 1899 in Washington, and was buried in Dover.