Đorđe Šagić (; April 30, 1795 – June 11, 1873), also known as George (Jorge) Fisher, was a customs officer and early leader of the Texas Revolution.
Biography
Fisher was originally named Đorđe Šagić, and also known as Đorđe Ribar (), which translated into English as George Fisher. He was born to Serbian parents in Székesfehérvár, Hungary in April 1795. Following his father's death Đorđe was sent to the Serbian Orthodox Church seminary in Sremski Karlovci, to train as a priest. In 1825, Fisher helped found the first York Rite Masonic Lodge in Mexico. He became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1829 and contracted to settle five hundred families on lands in Texas formerly held by Haden Edwards.
He later was in charge of a customs house at the far north end of Galveston Bay. Fisher demanded that all ships landing at the mouth of the Brazos River pay their customs duties to him at Anahuac. This was a great hardship to area boat captains due to the great distances between that port and other Texas seaports. Fisher was forced to resign his post in early 1832 after a military confrontation with Texian settlers.
Later that year, Fisher began publishing the liberal newspaper Mercurio del Puerto de Matamoros in Matamoros. On October 13, 1835, Fisher and José Antonio Mexía organized a movement in New Orleans to attack Tampico and instigate a revolt among the eastern states of Mexico.
In 1837, he became a commission agent in Houston, in the Republic of Texas, and served as justice of the peace in 1839.