| Robert Fisher | |
| State House3: | Tennessee |
| District3: | 4th |
| Term Start3: | 1975 |
| Term End3: | January 14, 1980 |
| Predecessor3: | Albert E. Miller Sr. |
| Successor3: | Frank "Bob" Percy |
| Birth Date: | 3 June 1925 |
| Birth Place: | Johnson City, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Mountain Home, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Party: | Republican |
| Children: | 3 |
| Residence: | Elizabethton, Tennessee |
| Profession: | Veterans Service Officer |
Robert Joseph Fisher (June 3, 1925 – February 11, 1989) was an American politician in the state of Tennessee. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1975 to 1980, sitting as a Republican.[1] [2]
In 1980, he was convicted of soliciting a $1,000 bribe from Carter County Sheriff George Papantoniou to kill a state bill the sheriff opposed. Fisher was fined $500 and received a 30 day suspended sentence, being expelled from the state legislature by a vote of 92–1. He was the first legislator in Tennessee to be expelled since 1866.[3] [4]
Fisher died in Mountain Home, Tennessee on February 11, 1989, at the age of 63.[5]