- Walter L. Fisher
Infobox US Cabinet official
name=Walter Lowrie Fisher
image_width=230px
order=25th
title=United States Secretary of the Interior
term_start=March 13 ,1911
term_end=March 5 ,1913
predecessor=Richard Achilles Ballinger
successor=Franklin Knight Lane
birth_date=birth date|1862|7|4|mf=y
birth_place=Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), U.S.
death_date=death date and age|1935|11|9|1862|7|4
death_place=U.S.
party=Republican
spouse=
profession=Politician
religion=Walter Lowrie Fisher (
July 4 ,1862 –November 9 ,1935 ) wasUnited States Secretary of the Interior under PresidentWilliam 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). He married Mabel Taylor onApril 22 ,1891 and they had five sons and two daughters.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.Dr. Fisher died
November 9 ,1935 inWinnetka ,Illinois .
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