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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeHubert Frederick FISHER
(1877-1941)
FISHER, Hubert Frederick,
a Representative from Tennessee; born in Milton, Santa Rosa County,
Fla., October 6, 1877; attended the common schools and was
graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1898;
took a postgraduate course at Princeton University in 1900 and
1901; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced
practice in Memphis, Tenn.; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1912; member of the State senate in 1913 and 1914;
United States attorney for the western district of Tennessee
1914-1917; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the six
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1931); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1930; due to deafness retired from
active legal and political activities and moved to Germantown,
Tenn., where he engaged in nursery pursuits; died June 16, 1941,
while on a visit in New York City; interment in Old Gray Cemetery,
Knoxville, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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