Lee Fisher is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 64th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, with Governor Ted Strickland, from 2007 until 2011. Before his election as Lieutenant Governor, Fisher served as a member of the Ohio General Assembly, first in the Ohio House of Representatives and then in the Ohio Senate. He was Attorney General of Ohio from 1991 to 1995 and the Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio in 1998, losing to Republican Bob Taft. From 1999 to 2006, he served as President and CEO of the Center for Families and Children in Cleveland. CFC is a $20 million human services nonprofit with over 300 staff. In addition, he has also served as the Director of the Ohio Department of Development and Chair of both the Ohio Third Frontier Commission and the Clean Ohio Council. In 2001 he graduated from the Center for Creative Leadership's "Leadership at the Peak" program. In January 2006, then-Congressman Ted Strickland asked Fisher to be his running mate in the 2006 gubernatorial election. Fisher left CFC on March 1, 2006 to run with Strickland. The two were elected. Fisher did not run for re-election in 2010, instead running for the U.S. [More at Wikipedia]

August 7th, 1951 in Ann Arbor  /  Died:   Jan 22nd, 2013 - aged 89