Hubert Fisher

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Hubert Frederick Fisher was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 10th congressional district of Tennessee. He was born on October 6, 1877 in Milton, Florida in Santa Rosa County. He attended the common schools and graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1898. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1904, and commenced practice in Memphis, Tennessee.

He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912. He was a member of the Tennessee Senate in 1913 and 1914. From 1914 to 1917, he was the United States district attorney for the western district of Tennessee. He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses. He served from March 4, 1917 to March 3, 1931, but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1930. Due to deafness, he retired from legal and political activities and moved to Germantown, Tennessee, where he engaged in nursery pursuits. He died on June 16, 1941 while on a visit to New York City. He was interred in Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee.

This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.