Lynn Joseph Frazier (21 December 1874-11 January 1947) was the Republican Governor of North Dakota from 3 January 1917 to 23 November 1921 (suceeding L.B. Hanna and preceding Ragnvald Nestos) and a US Senator from 4 March 1923 to 3 January 1941 (succeeding Porter J. McCumber and preceding William Langer).
Biography[]
Lynn Joseph Frazier was born in Medford, Minnesota in 1874, and he was raised in Grafton, North Dakota. In 1916, he was elected Governor as the Republican and Nonpartisan League candidate, winning the election with 79% of the vote. Frazier oversaw progressive reforms such as the establishment of the Bank of North Dakota and the University of North Dakota, but an economic depression negatively impacted the agricultural sector, and the state's private enterprises engineered his successful recall in 1921, marking the first time in American history that a Governor was recalled. He was elected to the US Senate in 1923, but he was unseated in the Republican primary in 1940. He died in Riverdale, Maryland in 1947.