James Fisk (4 October 1763 – 17 November 1844) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Vermont's 3rd district from 4 March 1805 to 3 March 1809 (interrupting William Chamberlain's terms) and from 4 March 1811 to 3 March 1815 (succeeding Chamberlain and preceding Chauncey Langdon), as well as a US Senator from 4 November 1817 to 8 January 1818 (succeeding Dudley Chase and preceding William A. Palmer). He was a Democratic-Republican.
Biography[]
James Fisk was born in Greenwich, Massachusetts in 1763, and he served in the American Revolutionary War before serving on the Massachusetts General Court. He moved to Barre, Vermont in 1798 and worked as a farmer and minister before becoming a lawyer. He served several terms in the Vermont House of Representatives before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1805 to 1809 and from 1811 to 1815, and, in 1817, he was appointed to finish Dudley Chase's term in the US Senate. He resigned in 1818 to serve as customs collector until 1826, and he died in Swanton, Vermont in 1844.