{"id":22736,"date":"2025-10-27T20:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22736\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:03:15","slug":"david-fischer-3-term-st-pete-mayor-dies-at-92-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22736\/","title":{"rendered":"David Fischer, 3-term St. Pete mayor, dies at 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 David Fischer, who served as St. Petersburg&#8217;s mayor from 1991 to 2001, died Wednesday, city officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>He was 92 years old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mayor Fischer was a dedicated public servant who left lasting impacts on the City of St. Petersburg,&#8221; said Mayor Kenneth T. Welch. &#8220;I join the rest of our community in celebrating his legacy and contributions that helped make our City what it is today &#8211; from the Rays\u2019 first pitch in St. Pete to redefining the role as Mayor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fischer won three terms as mayor before term limits were put in place. He also served on St. Pete&#8217;s City Council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He believed in listening, building relationships, and doing the quiet, steady work that moves a community forward. His work and leadership will forever be a staple in our City&#8217;s history and we are all better for it,&#8221; Welch said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 David Fischer, who served as St. Petersburg&#8217;s mayor from 1991 to 2001, died Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3140,274,2200,115,596,99,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,2032],"class_list":{"0":"post-22736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-instagram-bn9","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pinellas-county","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","15":"tag-st-pete","16":"tag-st-pete-headlines","17":"tag-st-pete-news","18":"tag-st-petersburg","19":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","20":"tag-st-petersburg-news","21":"tag-tampa","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-trending-topics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736","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=22736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}