Fischer served two terms in the state Senate as a Democrat. He remained active in politics until his final months, strongly opposing a failed effort last year to call a constitutional convention.
Vic Fischer, the last surviving delegate of Alaska’s original 1955 constitutional convention, displays a copy of the Alaska Constitution.
Fischer grew up in Berlin and Moscow. His mother was Russian and his father an American foreign correspondent. His father appealed to Eleanor Roosevelt to get the family out of the Soviet Union. And so, as Fischer later told it, his introduction to democracy began with dinner at the White House with the president and first lady. He was barely 15.
He came to Alaska in 1950 and advocated for statehood. Five years later, he was elected to help draft Alaska’s constitution. Fischer spoke of it at a “Which was very important to me, based on my abhorrence of the power of the state to kill its citizens, as I had seen in Germany, and in Russia,” Fischer said.
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