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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]

  1. ^ Gregg, Leigh F. (1984). "The First Amendment in the Nineteenth Century: Journalists' Privilege and Congressional Investigations".
  2. ^ "Mississippi in 1875: Report of the Select Committee to Inquire into the Mississippi Election of 1875". 1876.
  3. ^ Steiner, Bernard Christian; Mann, Charles Riborg; Lombard, Ellen Celia; Thompson, Frank Victor; Bishop, Frederic Lendall; Foght, Harold Waldstein; Kandel, Isaac Leon; Berkowitz, J. H.; Francis, John Haywood; Koos, Leonard V.; Barclay, Lorne Webster; Pearson, Peter Henry; Davis, Sheldon Emmor; Jones, Thomas Jesse; Pratt, Waldo Selden; Montgomery, Walter Alexander; Bawden, William Thomas (1919). "Education in the Territories and Dependencies: Advance Sheets from the Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1916-1918".
  4. ^ "John Hunt Morgan Knife and Grouping ID'd to Hiram T. Fisher, 16th Ohio and 53rd USCT / SOLD".
  5. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). "Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form".
  6. ^ Lowry, Robert (1900). "A History of Mississippi: For Use in Schools".