O. C. Fisher

A Representative from Texas. Born near Junction, Kimble County, Tex. , November 22, 1903. Attended the public schools at Junction, Tex. , the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Texas at Austin. LL. B, J. D. , Baylor University Law School, Waco, Tex. , 1929. Admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in San Angelo Tex. Engaged in ranching business. Author. County attorney of Tom Green County, Tex. , 1931-1935. Member of the Texas state house of representatives 1935-1937. District attorney, fifty-first judicial district, 1937-1943. Elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his resignation December 31, 1974. Chairman, Committee on Elections No. 3 (Seventy-ninth Congress). Was not a candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress. Was a resident of San Angelo, Tex. , until his death on December 9, 1994. Interment in Junction Cemetery, Junction, Tex.