Role Polit. Name Walter Fisher | Profession Politician Political party Republican Spouse Mabel Taylor (m. 1891) | |
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Preceded by Richard Achilles Ballinger Born July 4, 1862Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), U.S. ( 1862-07-04 ) Died November 9, 1935, United States of America | ||
Walter Lowrie Fisher (July 4, 1862 – November 9, 1935) was United States Secretary of the Interior under President William Howard Taft from 1911 to 1913.
Fisher was born July 4, 1862 in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) to Daniel Webster Fisher (1838 – 1913), a presbyterian minister, and his wife Amanda D. Kouns († 1911). Educated at Hanover College in Indiana from which he graduated in 1883. While at Hanover, he was initiated into the Chi Chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity. In 1890, he was elected as the fifth Grand Consul (the National President) of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, a position he held until 1892. He married Mabel Taylor on April 22, 1891 and they had five sons and two daughters.
His papers, covering his professional and political careers and containing 14,000 items, are in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Fisher had a brother, Dr. Howard Lowrie Fisher, who established a hospital for war victims in France during World War I. He survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915 by jumping off the ship.