the community. Fisher served as chairman on the Arlington County Board, the Washington Metropolitan Transit Area (WMATA), president and chairman of the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments, and moderator for the Board of Unitarian Universalist Association. Fisher also wrote two books, including World Prospects for Natural Resources (1964) and Resources for America's Future (1963). Death In 1985 Fisher had back pain which was diagnosed as bone cancer and went into remission after treatments, but the cancer returned in early 1991. He died on February 19, 1992, in Arlington, Virginia, and his ashes where buried at Arlington National Cemetery beside two 2-star generals. Archival Resources Fisher donated a collection of his records to the Special Collections Research Center at George Mason University. The collection is open and accessible to the public. References Fox, Stephen. "We Want No Straddlers." Wilderness 48.167 (1984): 5-19. External links 1914 births 1992 deaths Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Politicians from Pawtucket, Rhode Island Bowdoin College alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia American Unitarian Universalists George Washington University alumni George Washington University faculty American Unitarians 20th-century American politicians State cabinet secretaries of Virginia Resources for the Future