Ada Fisher

Ada M. Fisher (October 21, 1947 – October 7, 2022) was an American physician from Salisbury, North Carolina, and a frequent Republican candidate for office. She challenged incumbent Mel Watt in North Carolina's 12th Congressional district in 2004 and 2006. Fisher said that she would like to be the first black Republican female elected to Congress; however, Mia Love actually became the first black Republican female elected to Congress.

A life member of the NAACP and a lifelong Republican, Fisher was the Republican National Committeewoman for the state of North Carolina. Fisher was the daughter of Rev. Miles Mark Fisher of Durham, North Carolina, himself the son of a former slave and his Seminole Indian wife. Rev. Fisher was also a Republican, Fisher attended Durham public schools, graduating from Hillside High School with honors. She then graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in biology.

Career Upon receiving her medical degree, Fisher participated in a residency at the University of Rochester in family medicine. Fisher was re-elected in 2012, again defeating Forrester.

As of the end of 2008, Fisher was one of three African Americans on the RNC. She endorsed Katon Dawson for RNC chairman that year. Fisher later called for the winner of the RNC race, Michael S. Steele, to resign after less than two months in office.

Campaigns Fisher ran for the United States Senate in 2002 in the Republican primary against Elizabeth Dole, who went on to win the general election; Fisher placed fourth in a field of seven Republican candidates.

In 2006, Fisher ran against Watt for the second time. She lost the election to Lorene T. Coates.

Political views

Fisher wrote in The North Carolina Conservative that the Republican Party had a long history of black candidates for office, including the first black senator Hiram Revels and the first black congressman, Joseph Rainey, and four of the first six black senators. She called President Bush's guest worker proposals "amnesty" that will depress wages for Americans:

Personal life and death Fisher never married but adopted two sons, who are now adults.