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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Spencer Fisher attended the public schools of his home and the Albion College and Hillsdale College. After that he was in West Bay City, which is a district of Bay City today, active in the timber industry and the banking industry. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1881 and 1884 he was mayor of West Bay City. In 1884, Fisher was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in part, was nominated to the Grover Cleveland as a presidential candidate.

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

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Fisher took his previous activities on again. In 1894 he ran for governor of Michigan, but lost with 31.4 percent of the vote clearly against the Republican incumbent John Tyler Rich. He died on June 1, 1919 in Bay City.

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