Max Fisher
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Max Martin Fisher (July 15, 1908 – March 3, 2005) was an American businessman and philanthropist.
He was a benefactor/alumnus of the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University.
He spent much of his life raising money for philanthropic and political endeavors and was a supporter of charitable and civic organizations.
His skill at diplomacy made him an advisor on Middle East and Jewish issues, to every administration from President Dwight D. Eisenhower's to President George W. Bush's.
Personal life and family
Fisher was married twice:
In 1934, he married Sylvia Krell who died in 1952. They had one child:
In 1953, he married Marjorie Faith Switow. They had two children together:
Switow also had two children from her prior husband, George Allen Frehling, whom Fisher adopted:
Fisher has 15 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
He died March 3, 2005 at about 11:30am in his home in Franklin, Michigan, surrounded by family and is interred at the Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham, Michigan.
Fisher financed the schooling of his nephew Stephen M. Ross, who called him, "the most important role model and inspiration for me in life".
Life and career
Fisher was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents and grew up in Salem, Ohio, where his father owned a clothing store. He attended The Ohio State University on a football scholarship and graduated with a degree in business administration in 1930. He was initiated into the Alpha Epsilon chapter of the Phi Beta Delta fraternity, which is now a member of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity, while a student at OSU. Fisher joined his father's Keystone Oil Refining Company, a motor oil reclamation company in Detroit, as a $15-a-week salesman in 1930 before establishing his own firm in 1932. Aurora Gasoline, he converted the company into one of the Midwest's biggest gas station chains, before selling the operation to Marathon Oil in 1959, after being in charge of the department for 27 years.
Fisher retired from real estate in 1963, where he served as the Honorary Chairman of United Jewish Federations (UJC), the Council of Jewish Federations, and the American Jewish Committee. He endorsed Jewish and general causes worldwide and was instrumental in virtually every major Jewish synagogue. He has also been the subject of essays, debates, television documentaries, and a biography by Peter Golden, entitled Quiet Diplomat.
Fisher has served as a trusted advisor to US presidents and Israeli prime ministers for decades, from the Six-Day War to Ethiopian Jewry. He pioneered a new age of American Jewish activism and politics by mainly forging new links between Washington and Jerusalem, and he was dubbed the senior statesman of North American Jewry. In 1977, Jimmy Carter invited him to the Camp David Accords.
He was a delegate from Michigan at the 1964, 1968, 1976 Republican National Conventions, and as an alternate in the 1988 Republican National Convention.