Biography of 	FISHER, John B., Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 520-521.  Edited 
by Alcee Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical 
Association.

Fisher, John B., judge of the  first city criminal court, New Orleans, was
born in the city of New Orleans, La., Dec. 20, 1862; son of John A. G. and 
Mary S.(Garrett) Fisher, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and 
the latter in New York.  The parents were married at Peoria, Ill., and a
short time prior to the Civil war came to Louisiana and located at New 
Orleans, where the father followed his profession, that of a practicing 
physician, throughout the remainder of his active life.  His death occurred
in the year 1889. John B. Fisher, the son, passed the days of his childhood
and youth in the City of New Orleans, where he graduated from the Jesuit
college.  Later the young man entered the law school of Tulane university 
of Louisiana, and in due time graduated from that institution with the 
class of 1883.  He lost little time before opening offices and beginning 
the practice of his profession at the city of his nativity, where his 
abilities and promise as an attorney won rapid recognition in the ranks of 
the profession as also among the laity, the sterling qualities of his 
character as a man being a powerful factor in drawing to him a most 
desirable clientele.  When 5 years from the date of his graduation the
young attorney had been admitted to practice before the Supreme court of 
the United States.  In May, 1909, he was appointed to fill an unexpired 
term as judge of the First Criminal court, at New Orleans, and in Nov. 1912,
without opposition, he was elected to succeed himself as incumbent of that 
office.  In politics Judge Fisher is affiliated with the democratic party 
and has at all times been active in the support of democratic principles 
and the interests of his party, wherein his abilities also won early 
recognition.  Prior to accepting a position on the bench, he served as a 
delegate to the national democratic convention in 1904, and also a member 
of the Louisiana state central committee for several years.  In 1889 he was 
a delegate to the semi-religious Catholic convention that met at Baltimore, 
and was elected one of the national secretaries of the association.  He is a
member of the Knights of Columbus and of the Benevolent and Protective 
Order of Elks.  In 1896 Judge Fisher was married to Miss Alberta Long, of 
Louisville, Ky.  To Judge and Mrs. Fisher 2 children have been born, these 
being, in order of their birth,  John Long and Auren Augustus.