Israel F. Fischer

Israel Frederick Fischer ( born August 17, 1858 in New York City; † March 16, 1940 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1895 and 1899 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Israel Frederick Fischer was born about three years before the outbreak of the Civil War in New York City and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools and the Cooper Institute. He then worked as a clerk ( clerk ) in a law firm, where he focused on jurisprudential processes ( reading law). He then studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1879 and then began to practice in New York City. In September 1887, he moved to the still independent city of Brooklyn. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1888 and 1890 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Republican State Committee.

In the congressional elections of 1894 fishermen in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William J. Coombs on March 4, 1895. He was re-elected once. In 1898 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1899 from the Congress of.

On May 2, 1899 President William McKinley appointed him to the Board of General Appraisers. President Calvin Coolidge appointed him on 16 April 1927, Chief Justice of this Court, a position which he held until his resignation on 31 March 1932. Fischer participated as a delegate at the 1903 International Customs Congress in New York City part. He died there on March 16, 1940 and was buried at the Maimonides Cemetery in Brooklyn.

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