Glenn Fisher [October 24, 1919 – May 18, 2006] was Regents Professor Emeritus, Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs, Wichita State University. He published the initial determinants study of state and local expenditures (1964) which was tied for the fifth most cited article in the first 50 years of the National Tax Journal, and became a leading authority on the property tax culminating in his book, The Worse Tax? A History of the Property Tax in America (1996). He received a B.A. from the University of Iowa (1948), an M.A. from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (1950), and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin (1954). He joined the economics faculty at North Dakota State (1954-1961) and then a professor of political science at the University of Illinois (1961-1970), before joining the Wichita State University faculty in 1970 as its first Regents Professor (1970-1993). He served on major state tax groups in Minnesota, North Dakota, Illinois, and Kansas. In Kansas, he served on the Consensus Revenue Estimating Group and the Civil Service Board and wrote numerous publications on state and local finance. He was one of only three honorary members of the International Association of Assessing Officers (1989). As a WWII Purple Heart recipient, he wrote Mine is Not the Reason Why – The Story of a One-Eyed Soldier (2002).