Walter L. Fisher

Walter Lowrie Fisher ( born July 4, 1862 in Wheeling, Virginia; † November 9, 1935 in Winnetka, Illinois ) was an American politician ( Republican), who belonged to Taft as Minister of the Interior of the cabinet of U.S. President William Howard.

Walter Fisher was born in 1862 in Wheeling, which was a part of the new state of West Virginia in the following year. He later moved with his family to Indiana, where his father Daniel Webster Fisher took over the presidency at Hanover College. After he had first attended the Marietta College, Fisher continued his education then continued in Hanover, where he made his bachelor's degree in 1883. He then studied law and opened his own law firm in Chicago.

There, Fisher was 1906 President of the Municipal Voters League of Chicago, a voter organization, which wanted to fight corruption, which had spread among the aldermen of the city. His efforts were so successful that candidates had to sign a declaration of honor only his league for office before they could be chosen. He also managed to curb corruption in the Chicago Transit Authority. Its use for the Conservation National Conservation Association undertook made ​​him a candidate for a seat in the cabinet permanently.

President Taft, with whom he had been friends for many years, Fisher appealed first to the Railway Safety Commission, before he caught up with him on 13 March 1911 as successor to the retiring Minister of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger in his cabinet. This office practiced Walter Fisher of up to 5 March 1913. He supported Taft even in his re-election effort, but was eliminated together with the President of the Government ultimately after the defeat in 1912.

Walter Fisher retired after from politics and died in 1935 in his home in Winnetka, Illinois.

1915 survived by his brother, Dr. Howard Lowrie Fisher, the sinking of the British passenger liner RMS Lusitania by a German U- boat. He was to lead on the way to France there at the front of a hospital for war victims.