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Pembina County Biographies

FRAZIER, Lynn Joseph
(1874—1947)
Senate Years of Service: 1923-1941
Party: Republican
FRAZIER, Lynn Joseph, a Senator from North Dakota; born near Medford, Steele
County, Minn., December 21, 1874; moved to Dakota Territory (now North Dakota) in 1881 with his parents, who homesteaded
in Pembina County; attended the country schools; graduated from Mayville State Normal School, North Dakota, in
1895, and from the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks in 1901; engaged in agricultural pursuits; Governor
of North Dakota 1917-1921; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1922; reelected in 1928 and in
1934 and served from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1941; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1940; chairman,
Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventieth through Seventy-second Congresses); resumed his agricultural pursuits;
died January 11, 1947, in Riverdale, Md.; interment in Park Cemetery, Hoople, N.Dak.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present;
contributed by A. Newell
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