Background
Fisher, Ernest McKinley was born on May 15, 1893 in Macedonia, Illinois, United States. Son of Marshall Duff and Ada Carey (Vise) Fisher.
Fisher, Ernest McKinley was born on May 15, 1893 in Macedonia, Illinois, United States. Son of Marshall Duff and Ada Carey (Vise) Fisher.
AB, Coe College, 1914; Doctor of Laws, Coe College, 1950; AM, University of Wisconsin, 1922; Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1930.
Instructor, American U., Beirut, Syria, 1914-1917;
instructor, University of Wisconsin, 1919-1923;
director education and research, National Association Real Estate Bds., 1923-1926;
associate professor real estate management, University of Michigan, 1926-1929;
professor, University of Michigan, 1930-1936;
director, Division of Economics and Statistics and economics advisor, Federal Housing Administration, 1934-1940;
director research in mortgage and real estate finance, American Bankers Association, 1940-1945;
deputy manager, American Bankers Association, 1943-1945;
professor unban land economics, Columbia University, 1945-1961;
emeritus professor and special lecturer school archaeology, Columbia University, 1961-1964. Also chairman administrative board, director Institute for Urban Land Use and Housing Studies, 1947-1955. Staff Yale University of California Los Angeles, U. Hawaii, 1961-1962.
Dep.advisor on liberated areas unites states department State, 1943. Member board directors, Executive Committee National Committee on Housing, Inc., 1946-1948. Consultant to subcommittee on housing and urban re-development Senate Postwar Economics Policy and Planning Committee, 1944-1955.
Chairman advising committee Bureau Census, 1941, 42. Consultant Legislation Reference Svc., Library. of Congress, 1947-1949, bureau of Budget, 1946-1953, Board of Governors Federal Reserve.
Director First Federal Savings & Loan Association of New York, 1954-1992. With Signal corpus, United States army with American Expeditionary Forces, 1918-1919. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Statistical Association (Vice-President 1941).
Member American Economics Association, Beta Gamma Sigma, Alpha Kappa Psi, Lambda Alpha, Cosmos Club (Washington), Columbia Faculty Club.
Married Ethel Moore, August 9, 1922. 1 child, Robert Moore.