Title: Walter S. Fisher Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1942-1948

Creator:

• Fisher, Walter S., 1894-1956

Call Number: Northland Mss T

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the Area Research Center, History Center and Archives, Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center / Ashland Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Fisher, a Wisconsin Republican Assemblyman representing Florence, Forest, and Oneida counties; including fragmentary correspondence and campaign materials, and transcripts of meetings of the Joint Legislative Committee on Pension and Retirement Plans, 1945-1946, and a subcommittee of the Joint Interim Committee on Veterans' Legislation, 1946.

Language: English

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Walter S. Fisher, Republican Assemblyman representing Florence, Forest and Oneida counties, was born in Minocqua on 6 April 1894. He attended local public schools, Oshkosh State Teachers College, and the University of Wisconsin. For five years he taught school in Minocqua, Monico, and Hazelhurst, prior to serving with the 304th Field Signal Battalion during World War I. Fisher was admitted to the bar in 1922 and for the following five years was a paper company executive. In 1927 he began a private law practice, and in 1942 was elected to the Assembly where he served on the judiciary, veterans, excise and fees, and pension and retirement plans committees. He ran for the State Senate in 1948, but was defeated by the incumbent in the primary election. Fisher resumed his law practice after leaving office, and died in 1956.

The collection consists of only fragments of Fisher's legislative papers, primarily including transcripts of committee meetings which he attended. A small file of miscellaneous correspondence and campaign materials contains two of the “newspapers” which Fisher published and distributed during his campaigns. These documents reveal his legislative activities and views on subjects of interest to his constituents.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Mrs. Walter Fisher, Minocqua, Wisconsin, 1961. Accession Number: M61-154

Processing Information

Processed by Menzi Behrnd, February 28, 1979.

Box   1 Folder   1	Miscellaneous correspondence and campaign materials, 1942-1948
Box   1 Folder   2-5	Joint Legislative Interim Committee on Pension and Retirement Plans, Transcripts, Aug. 1945-Jan. 1946
Box   1 Folder   6	Joint Interim Committee on Veterans' Legislation, Transcript of Sub-Committee, May 1946