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Fisher (ANDREW High Commissioner)

ANDREW, High Commissioner of Australia in England. was born at Crosshouse, Kilmarnock, in 1862, and went to Queensland, Australia, in 1885. He entered the Queensland Parliament in 1893, and later became Minister of Railways in the Dawson Ministry. He represented Wide Bay in the Commonwealth Parliament for the first fifteen years of the Parliament. In 1904 he became Minister for Trade and Customs, Commonwealth of Australia; and in 1907 leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor party. In 1908-1909 he was Prime Minister of Australia; in 1909-1910 leader of Federal Opposition, and in 1910-1913 and 1914-1915 Prime Minister. In 1915 he resigned office as Prime Minister to represent Australia in London.