Famous People with Name Fisher

Sydney Arthur Fisher            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sydney Arthur Fisher: was a Canadian politician. A farmer, he first ran for the Canadian House of Commons in a 1880 by-elections for the riding of Brome. Although defeated, he was elected in 1882 and 1887. A Liberal, he lost to the Conservative candidate Eugène Alphonse Dyer by 3 votes in the 1891 election. He was elected again in the 1896 election and was re-elected in 1900, 1904, and 1908. He was defeated in 1911 and in a 1913 by-election. From 1896 to 1911, he was the Minister of Agriculture.

Charles Fisher            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Fisher: was a politician and jurist of New Brunswick, Canada. Fisher was a leading Reformer of his day who headed the first responsible government in New Brunswick from 1854 to 1861.He was elected to the House of Commons in 1867 as a Liberal but resigned his seat in 1868 to accept an appointment to the New Brunswick Supreme Court. One of his notable decisions as a judge of the Court was his lone dissent in Dow v. Black, a significant constitutional law case dealing with the federal-provincial division of powers. He would have upheld the constitutionality of a provincial statute dealing with municipal taxation, but the majority of the Court held the statute to be unconstitutional. However, his position was upheld on appeal by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, at that time the court of last resort for the British Empire, which ruled that the statute was within provincial powers.

John Henry Fisher            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Henry Fisher: was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Brant North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1905 to 1911 and Brant in the Canadian House of Commons from 1911 to 1917 as a Conservative member.

Douglas Glenn Fisher            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Douglas Glenn Fisher: was Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a businessman by career. He represented the Mississauga North electoral district after winning that riding in the 1980 federal election. Fisher served only one term in the 32nd Canadian Parliament before his defeat in 1984 federal election to Robert Horner of the Progressive Conservative party. He also campaigned unsuccessfully against Horner in the 1988 federal election at the Mississauga West riding.

Douglas Mason "Doug" Fisher            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Douglas Mason "Doug" Fisher: was a Canadian political columnist and politician. He entered politics with his upset victory in the 1957 general election as a candidate for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He won over Liberal Cabinet minister C.D. Howe, the "minister of everything" in the governments of William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent. Re-elected in 1958 with an increased majority, Fisher was one of only a handful of CCFers elected in the general election that returned a crushing Progressive Conservative majority government, led by John Diefenbaker. The CCF, nearly wiped out, began to debate a relaunch of the social democratic movement in Canada by formally integrating the party with the Canadian Labour Congress trade union movement. Fisher, along with the interim leader of the CCF, Hazen Argue, resisted the transition into what was to become the New Democratic Party, arguing against making labour too strong within the movement. After the 1963 election saw the defeat of David Lewis, who had been Deputy Leader of the New Democratic Party, Doug Fisher became Deputy Leader.