Draft:Hiram T. Fisher
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Hiram T. Fisher was a newspaper editor. He was a Republican. He had been a Democrat prior to 1857.[1] Veteran of the Union Army? Captain?
He gave extensive testimony to the U.S. Senate committee investigating the 1875 election.[2]
Mississippi Education Journal editor in 1872.[3]
Jackson Times
A collection of items associated with him was auctioned for $15,000.[4]
Editor of the Jackson Daily Pilot and state printer in Jackson.[5]
He was in a political discussion with Amos Randall Johnston immediately prior to the Clinton massacre in Clinton, Mississippi.[6]
Referred to as a carpetbagger here? https://books.google.com/books?id=oIdKAAAAMAAJ&q=h.t.+fisher+jackson+mississippi+1875
References[edit]
- ^ Gregg, Leigh F. (1984). "The First Amendment in the Nineteenth Century: Journalists' Privilege and Congressional Investigations".
- ^ "Mississippi in 1875: Report of the Select Committee to Inquire into the Mississippi Election of 1875". 1876.
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=lhM_AQAAMAAJ&dq=h.t.+fisher+jackson+mississippi+1875&pg=RA27-PA100
- ^ https://uniondb.com/products/xn-john-hunt-morgan-knife-and-grouping-idd-to-hiram-t-6105a-fisher-16th-ohio-and-53rd-usct
- ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). "Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form".
- ^ Lowry, Robert (1900). "A History of Mississippi: For Use in Schools".