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George Purnell Fisher was descended from John Fisher who came to Pennsylvania with William Penn in 1682. His father, Thomas, was twice high sheriff of Sussex County, Delaware, and twice high sheriff of Kent County—an unparalleled distinction—and commanded a brigade of Sussex County militia in 1812. He moved to Milford, Kent County, in 1815, where his third wife, Nancy Owens, daughter of Robert and Sallie Owens of Sussex County, gave birth to her only son, George Purnell Fisher.
Fisher’s early education was received in the county schools.
At seventeen he attended St. Mary’s College, Baltimore, but the following year transferred to Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1838.
He at once entered the law office of John M. Clayton, a family connection, and at the same time tutored the latter’s sons. In 1840 he married Eliza, daughter of Truston Polk McColley, a Milford merchant of Scotch ancestry, and after his admission to the bar in 1841, he settled at Dover, winning “marked success from the beginning” (Lore, post, p. 7). It was not long before the young lawyer became enamored of politics, serving his political apprenticeship as clerk of the state Senate (1843), member of the state House of Representatives from Kent County (1844), and secretary of state of Delaware under the Democratic governors Joseph Maull and William Temple (1846 - 47).
When John M. Clayton became secretary of state (1849 - 50) under President Taylor, Fisher served as his confidential clerk and participated actively in the negotiations which led to the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. By Taylor’s appointment, he adjudicated certain claims of American citizens against Brazil (1850 - 52), and at Fillmore’s request, he acted as his private secretary until Fillmore’s son came to Washington.
In March 1855 Governor Causey appointed Fisher attorney-general of Delaware for a term of five years, at the expiration of which he was the candidate of both wings of the People’s party for election to the Thirty-seventh Congress, being elected by a majority of 247, although the state was normally Democratic. By 1862, however, when he was renominated by the Republican was highly esteemed.
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The Massachusetts Medical Society made him a member.
In 1840 he married Eliza, daughter of Truston Polk McColley, a Milford merchant of Scotch ancestry, and after his admission to the bar in 1841, he settled at Dover, winning “marked success from the beginning” (Lore, post, p. 7).
