O.C. Fisher

In thirty-two years in Congress, Fisher voted as a conservative Democrat. He favored states' rights, conservation and water control and a large defense establishment, and he opposed the New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier and Great Society. He sponsored dams at San Angelo and on Brady Creek and Amistad Dam on the Rio Grande at Del Rio, and at his 1974 retirement he was the second-ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee. The old San Angelo dam and lake now bear his name, and for years he wrote his district a series called Our Washington Newsletter.

What the plaque says

O.C. Fisher Author, attorney and politician Ovie Clark Fisher (1903-1994) was born at the Kimble County Ranch Home of his parents, Jobe and Rhoda (Clark) Fisher. He graduated from Junction High School and received a law degree from Baylor University. He married Marian DeWalsh in 1927, and the couple had one daughter. O.C. was Tom Green County Attorney from 1931-35 before serving as State Representative and then District Attorney. In 1942 he was elected to the U.S. Congress, and represented west Texas for nearly 32 years. A prolific author, he compiled oral interviews for it occurred in Kimble, and how (1937), and wrote several books about Texas history and his life in politics. He and his wife are buried at Junction Cemetery. (2017)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kimble County Historical Museum — 1.0 mi
  A free county museum in Junction, the town at the meeting of the North and South Llano, with the papers, photographs and tools of a ranching county.
• Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve — 26 mi
  A limestone cave on the James River where about four million Mexican free-tailed bats raise their young each summer, kept open to visitors by a family's gift.
• Fort McKavett State Historic Site — 31 mi
  The post Sherman called the prettiest in Texas, home to soldiers of all four Buffalo Soldier regiments and then to a town that lived in its buildings until 1973.

More markers nearby

• Early History of Kimble County — steps away
• John Sterling Durst Pioneer Minister — steps away
• Stevenson, Coke R., Texas Statesman — steps away
• Colonel John Griffith — steps away