O. C. Fisher

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Early life

Fisher was born in Junction in Kimble County, Texas to Jobe Bazilee and Rhoda Catherine Clark Fisher.<ref name="Ovie Clark Fisher">Template:Handbook of Texas Texas State Historical Association</ref> He married Marian E. De Walsh on September 11, 1927. A daughter named Rhoda was the couple's only child.

Fisher attended University of Texas at Austin, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Baylor University at Waco, from which he received his LL.B.<ref name="About O. C. Fisher">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was admitted to the bar in 1929.

Career

Fisher practiced law in San Angelo in West Texas for two years.<ref name="Fisher, Ovie Clark">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1931, he was elected county attorney for Tom Green County.

Fisher represented the 53rd District of Texas in the Texas House of Representatives<ref name="State House of Representatives, 1930s">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> from 1935 to 1937. From 1937 to 1943, Fisher was District Attorney for the 51st Judicial District of Texas. <ref name="Fisher Biographical Chronology">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1942, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives<ref name="Texas: U.S. Representatives, 1940s">Template:Cite news</ref> as a Democrat and served in the 78th Congress<ref name="Committees Served-O.C. Fisher">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> to the 93rd Congress. He was reelected 14 times, only facing nominal opposition the first 13 times.

In 1972, however, Republican Doug Harlan held Fisher to 57 percent of the general election vote despite spending almost no money. Paul Burka of Texas Monthly said Harlan's success was "one of the first indications that the dominance of the rural conservative Democrats in Texas politics could not be sustained." With Harlan priming for a rematch in 1974, Fisher opted against a 16th term.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Fisher was one of five U.S. representatives from Texas to sign the "Southern Manifesto"<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> in protest of the US Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Fisher voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the Civil Rights Acts of 1960,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the Civil Rights Acts of 1964,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Civil Rights Acts of 1968<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

After heart surgery<ref name="What the Politicians Say">Template:Cite journal</ref> in 1973, Fisher announced that he would not be stand for re-election in 1974.<ref name="Contest Looms for U.S. House Seats">Template:Cite news</ref> His party nominated Robert Krueger as his successor, who defeated Harlan, who made his second and last race for Congress.

Fisher died on December 9, 1994.<ref name="Ex-Rep O.C. Fisher of Texas, Who Served 32 Years in Congress, Dies at 91">Template:Cite news</ref>

Legacy

Baylor University is the repository for the O.C. Fisher Papers.<ref name="O. C. Fisher Papers">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1975, San Angelo Lake, a reservoir managed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers was renamed O.C. Fisher Reservoir in his honor.<ref name="O.C. Fisher Reservoir">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> San Angelo State Park<ref name="San Angelo State Park">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is on the shores of the reservoir.

Fraternal memberships

Fisher had membership in the following organizations:<ref name="Kimble Co-The Political Graveyard">Template:Cite news</ref>

Works

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