Frederick B. Fancher

Frederick Bartlett Fancher (born April 2, 1852 in Orleans County , New York , † January 10, 1944 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American politician and from 1899 to 1901 the seventh governor of the state of North Dakota .

Early years

Frederick Fancher attended local schools in his home town of New York and then, after moving, Michigan . He later graduated from the State Normal School in Ypsilanti . Fancher then worked in insurance in Illinois and North Dakota. He also ran a large farm in Dakota. A member of the Republican Party , Fancher served as President of the North Dakota Constituent Assembly in 1889. Between 1894 and 1897 he was the State Insurance Commissioner ( North Dakota Insurance Commissioner ); he also acted as curator of a home for the mentally handicapped. On November 8, 1898 he was elected the new governor of his state with 59:41 percent of the vote against the Democrat D. M. Holmes.

North Dakota Governor

Fancher took up his new office on January 3, 1899. During his two-year term in office, the expansion of the railroad continued. A pardon committee was also set up. Otherwise, his term of office passed without any particular incident. After the end of his tenure in early January 1901 Fancher withdrew from politics. He moved to Sacramento , California, where he started a wholesale operation, and died in Los Angeles in 1944 at the age of 91.

Web links

• Frederick Fancher in the National Governors Association (English)
• North Dakota Historical Society (English)
• Frederick B. Fancher in the database of Find a Grave (English)