Frederick B. Fancher

Frederick Bartlett Fancher ( born April 2, 1852 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 the local schools of his home in New York and then, after a move, in Michigan. In Ypsilanti, he later graduated from the State Normal School. Then Fancher worked in Illinois and North Dakota in insurance. In Dakota, he also operated a large farm. As a member of the Republican Party Fancher was in 1889 president of the Constituent Assembly of North Dakota. Between 1894 and 1897 he was state insurance commissioner (North Dakota Insurance Commissioner ); Furthermore, he served as curator of a home for the mentally handicapped. On 8 November 1898 he was elected with 59:41 percent of the vote to Democrat D. M. Holmes as the new governor of his state.

Governor of North Dakota

Fancher took up his new post on January 3, 1899. In his two -year term of the expansion of the railway was further advanced. A parole board has been launched. Otherwise, his term was uneventful. After the end of his term in early January 1901, Fancher retired from politics. He moved to Sacramento, California, where he founded a wholesale operation, and died in 1944 at the age of 91 years in Los Angeles.