Spencer Oliver Fisher (February 3, 1843 – June 1, 1919), was a politician from the

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. Fisher was born in

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, where he attended the public schools. He also attended

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and

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. He engaged in lumbering and banking in West Bay City, where he was mayor, 1881-1884. He was a delegate to the

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of 1884 Fisher was elected as a Democrat from

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to the 49th and 50th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in

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, being defeated by Frank W. Wheeler, and resumed his former business pursuits in Bay City. Fisher was a candidate for

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in 1894, but was defeated by the

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incumbent

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. He died twenty-five years later at the age of seventy-six in Bay City and is interred there in Elm Lawn Cemetery.

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