Horatio Gates Fisher

Horatio Gates Fisher ( * April 21, 1838 in Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, † May 8, 1890 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Horatio Fisher attended both public and private schools. In 1855 he graduated from Lafayette College in Easton. He then worked in the mining and shipping of coal. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1862 and 1865 he sat in the council of his hometown; 1865 to 1868 he was auditor in Huntingdon County. In the years 1874-1876 he served as mayor of Huntingdon, before to 1879 he was a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania in 1876.

In the congressional elections of 1878 Fisher was in the 18th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats William Stenger on March 4, 1879. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 two legislative sessions. Since 1881 he was chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. In 1882 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Horatio Fisher took his previous activities on again. In 1888 he was a board member of the reformatory in Huntingdon. He died on 8 May 1890 in Punxsutawney and was buried in Huntingdon.