Frederick B. Fancher
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox officeholder Frederick Bartlett Fancher (April 2, 1852Template:SpndJanuary 10, 1944) was an American politician who was the seventh governor of North Dakota from 1899 to 1901.
Biography
Frederick B. Fancher was born in Orleans County, New York, on April 2, 1852.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Educated in the public schools, he also attended Michigan State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He married Florence S. Van Voorhies.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
Working in insurance in Illinois (where his office was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>) and North Dakota, Fancher first entered politics and was President of the North Dakota Constitutional Convention in 1889.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He had moved to North Dakota in 1881 and began a large farming operation near Jamestown. He was State Insurance Commissioner from 1895 to 1899 and a trustee board member of the State Hospital for the Insane.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Securing the Republican nomination, he was elected Governor and served from 1899 to January 10, 1901. While he was in that office, a state board of pardons, and a twine plant in the state penitentiary were established. Although renominated at the Republican convention, he withdrew due to ill health.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
After leaving office, he moved to Sacramento, California and had a retail and wholesale grocery business until his retirement in 1925.Template:Citation needed
Death
Fancher died in Los Angeles, California, on January 10, 1944, at age 91. He is buried in East Lawn Memorial Park in Sacramento, California.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was the last surviving Governor to have served in the 19th century.
References
External links
- Biography for Frederick Fancher from the State Historical Society of North Dakota website.
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- Soylent Communications
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