The New International Encyclopædia/Fisk, Clinton Bowen

FISK, Clinton Bowen (1828-90). An American soldier and politician. He was born at Griggsville, N. Y., spent some years as a merchant in Michigan, and then removed to Saint Louis, Mo. At the beginning of the Civil War he entered the Union Army, and in 1865 was brevetted major-general. Subsequently he devoted his life largely to the interests of the colored race; was assistant commissioner in the Freedmen's Bureau, and was instrumental in founding Fisk University. In 1884 he left the Republican Party and identified himself with the temperance movement. He was Prohibition candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1886, and for President of the United States in 1888.