Frederick B. Fancher
{{Short description|American politician (1852–1944)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Frederick Bartlett Fancher
| image = Frederick Fancher (North Dakota Governor).jpg
| caption = From 1899's Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1898
| order1 = 7th
| office1 = Governor of North Dakota
| term_start1 = January 3, 1899
| term_end1 = January 10, 1901
| lieutenant1 = Joseph M. Devine
| predecessor1 = Joseph M. Devine
| successor1 = Frank White
| office2 = Insurance Commissioner of North Dakota
| governor2 = Roger Allin
Frank A. Briggs
Joseph M. Devine
| term_start2 = 1895
| term_end2 = 1899
| predecessor2 = James Cudhie
| successor2 = George W. Harrison
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1852|4|2}}
| birth_place = Orleans County, New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1944|1|10|1852|4|2}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| party = Republican
}}
Frederick Bartlett Fancher (April 2, 1852{{spnd}}January 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.{{Cite web|title=Frederick B. Fancher - North Dakota Governors Online Exhibit - Exhibits - State Historical Society of North Dakota|url=https://www.history.nd.gov/exhibits/governors/governors7.html|access-date=2021-04-16|website=www.history.nd.gov}} Educated in the public schools, he also attended Michigan State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He married Florence S. Van Voorhies.{{cite web |last=NNDB |title=Frederick B. Francher |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/142/000208515/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614091444/https://www.nndb.com/people/142/000208515/ |archive-date=2021-06-14 |access-date=September 4, 2012 |publisher=Soylent Communications}}
Career
Working in insurance in Illinois (where his office was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871{{Cite book |last=Trinka |first=Zena Irma |title=Out Where the West Begins |date=1920 |publisher=The Pioneer Company |year=1920 |location=St. Paul |pages=382 |language=English}}) and North Dakota, Fancher first entered politics and was President of the North Dakota Constitutional Convention in 1889.{{cite web |title=Frederick B. Fancher |url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_north_dakota/col2-content/main-content-list/title_fancher_frederick.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233655/https://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_north_dakota/col2-content/main-content-list/title_fancher_frederick.html |archive-date=2016-03-03 |access-date=September 4, 2012 |publisher=National Governors Association}} 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.{{cite web|title=Frederick B Fancher|url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_north_dakota/col2-content/main-content-list/title_fancher_frederick.html|publisher=National Governors Association|access-date=September 4, 2012}}
File:Portrait of Governor Frederick B. Fancher, 1899.jpg
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.{{Cite book |last=Trinka |first=Zena Irma |title=Out Where the West Begins |date=1920 |publisher=The Pioneer Company |year=1920 |location=St. Paul |pages=382 |language=English}}
After leaving office, he moved to Sacramento, California and had a retail and wholesale grocery business until his retirement in 1925.{{cn|date=September 2024}}
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.{{cite web |title=Frederick B. Fancher |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faircloth-farleigh.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124040933/https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faircloth-farleigh.html |archive-date=2022-01-24 |access-date=September 4, 2012 |publisher=The Political Graveyard}} He was the last surviving Governor to have served in the 19th century.
References
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External links
- [http://www.state.nd.us/hist/ndgov2.htm#fancher Biography for Frederick Fancher] from the [http://www.state.nd.us/hist/ State Historical Society of North Dakota website].
- {{find a Grave|grid=7252735|name=Frederick Bartlett Fancher}}
- [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faircloth-farleigh.html The Political Graveyard]
- [http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_north_dakota/col2-content/main-content-list/title_fancher_frederick.html National Governors Association]
- [http://www.nndb.com/people/142/000208515/ Soylent Communications]
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| title=Governor of North Dakota
| years=1899–1901
| after=Frank White
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Category:Republican Party governors of North Dakota
Category:19th-century North Dakota politicians
Category:20th-century North Dakota politicians