Editor, the Advocate: Fisher Ames (1758-1808), a Founder and politician ... schools. . . . We’ve become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children containing fables ...

As the young American Republic emerged from one crisis only to lurch into another, the Federalist stalwart Fisher Ames drily summed up the political landscape: “God looks out for drunks and the United ...

Swimming has always been in the blood of Josh and Chris Fisher. Their dad, Joe Fisher, was a star swimmer at Ames and Iowa State and is the current head coach for the Little Cyclone girls and boys ...

The carpenter Levi Fisher Ames left Monroe, Wisconsin, to fight for Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Injured in the war, he returned home in 1865 and–unable to continue with heavy labor–turned to the ...

Fisher Ames was a Representative in the United States Congress from the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts. He was an important leader of the Federalists in the House, and was noted for ...