Walter L. Fisher
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Walter Lowrie Fisher was United States Secretary of the Interior under President William Howard Taft from 1911 to 1913.
Fisher in 1912
Chicago Traction Wars
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The Chicago Traction Wars was a political conflict which took place in Chicago primarily from the mid-1890s through the early 1910s. It concerned the franchise and ownership of streetcar lines. At the
Walter L. Fisher
…by Chicago mayor Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne to serve as Special Traction Counsel, a role in which he would assist the mayor in addressing the city's traction issue. He resigned the following year after Dunne rejected his advice to accept the Settlement Ordinances that had passed in the Chicago City Council. His…
Caricature from 1899 showing Chicago mayor Carter Harrison, Jr. fighting against the "Allen bill"
Cover of the April 25, 1905 edition of Puck, portraying newly-inaugurated mayor Dunne as dispossessing traction interests of their franchises