George Fisher (New York)

George Fisher ( born March 17, 1788 in Franklin, Massachusetts, † March 26, 1861 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. In the years 1829 and 1830 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Fisher was born about five years after the end of the American War of Independence in Norfolk County. He attended community schools and the Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). Fisher studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in Oswego County in 1816, he began practicing in Oswego. In 1818 he was appointed inspector of schools. He was in the years 1828 and 1833 Trustee of the Village of Oswego.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the anti - Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1828 Fisher was in the 20th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Silas Wright and Rudolph Bunner on March 4, 1829. His election was successfully contested by Silas Wright, which, however, then gave up the seat. Fisher retired after the February 5, 1830 out of the Congress.

As a trustee, he was in 1830 working in schools. In addition, he set up in 1833 in Oswego his work as a lawyer continued. Then he went with his family to France, where he spent five years for the education of his children. After the family returned to Oswego, where he pursued real estate transactions. He was for several years president of the Northwestern Insurance Co. Circa 1856 he moved to New York City, where he died about two weeks before the outbreak of the Civil War.