{"id":18147,"date":"2025-10-24T00:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/18147\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:13:12","slug":"former-st-petersburg-mayor-dave-fischer-dies-at-92-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/18147\/","title":{"rendered":"Former St. Petersburg Mayor Dave Fischer dies at 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t1<\/p>\n<p>David Fischer, who served as Mayor of St. Petersburg for 10 years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/government\/mayor___city_council\/mayor_s_office\/past_mayors.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">from 1991 until 2001<\/a>, has passed away peacefully, his daughter announced Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/761916-former-st-petersburg-mayor-dave-fischer-dies-at-92\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">He was 92<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fischer was the city of St. Pete\u2019s first strong Mayor, meaning his predecessors served as leaders of the City Council while a City Manager ran day-to-day city operations while he and all of his successors served as the city\u2019s chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>Fischer is the city\u2019s longest-serving Mayor and led through a number of generational changes, including welcoming the then-Tampa Bay Devil Rays for its inaugural season. He\u2019s also credited with ending the \u201cwater wars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Janelle Irwin, <a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida Politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 David Fischer, who served as Mayor of St. Petersburg for 10 years from 1991 until 2001, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-18147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}