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Ovie Clark Fisher (November 22, 1903 – December 9, 1994) was an attorney and author who served for thirty-two years as United States Representative for Texas's 21st congressional district. ==Biography== Fisher was born in Junction in Kimble County, Texas to〔 Texas State Historical Association〕 Jobe Bazilee and Rhoda Catherine Clark Fisher. 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〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.baylor.edu/lib/poage/fisher/index.php?id=57562 )〕 where he received his LL.B. He was admitted to the bar in 1929. Fisher practiced law in San Angelo in West Texas for two years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000152 )〕 In 1931, he was elected county attorney for Tom Green County. Fisher represented the 53rd District of Texas in the Texas House of Representatives 1935–1937. 1937–1943, Fisher was District Attorney for the〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.baylor.edu/lib/poage/fisher/index.php?id=63152 )〕 51st Judicial District of Texas. In 1942, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat and served in the 78th United States Congress〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.baylor.edu/lib/poage/fisher/index.php?id=56173 )〕 through the 93rd United States Congress. In 1972, the Reublican Doug Harlan held Fisher to 57 percent of the general election vote. Paul Burka of ''Texas Monthly'' said Harlan's race was "one of the first indications that the dominance of the rural conservative Democrats in Texas politics could not be sustained." After heart surgery in 1973, Fisher announced that he would not be stand for re-election in 1974. His party nominated Robert Krueger as his successor; Krueger then defeated Doug Harlan, who made his second and last race for Congress. O.C. Fisher died December 9, 1994. Baylor University is the repository for〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.baylor.edu/lib/poage/fisher/index.php?id=56175#agencies )〕 the O.C. Fisher Papers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「O. C. Fisher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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