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John James Fraser

Canadian politician

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	The Honourable
name	John James Fraser
image	John James Fraser.png
caption	Justice John James Fraser
order	5th
office	Premier of New Brunswick
term_start	May 3, 1878
term_end	May 25, 1882
predecessor	George E. King
successor	Daniel L. Hanington
monarch	Victoria
lieutenant_governor	Samuel Leonard Tilley
Edward Barron Chandler
Robert Duncan Wilmot
order2	9th
office2	Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
term_start2	December 20, 1893
term_end2	November 24, 1896
predecessor2	John Boyd
successor2	Abner Reid McClelan
monarch2	Victoria
governor_general2	The Earl of Aberdeen
premier2	Andrew George Blair
James Mitchell
office3	MLA for York
term_start3	March 2, 1865
term_end3	June 1, 1866
predecessor3	Charles Fisher
successor3	Charles Fisher
alongside3	George Luther Hatheway, William Hayden Needham, John Campbell Allen
term_start4	August 3, 1872
term_end4	May 25, 1882
predecessor4	George Luther Hatheway
successor4	Edward Ludlow Wetmore
alongside4	Robert Robinson, Andrew George Blair, Charles McPherson, Thomas F. Barker, Frederick P. Thompson, John Adolphus Beckwith, Hiram Dow, George J. Colter
birth_date
birth_place	Beaubears Island, New Brunswick, Canada
death_date
death_place	Genoa, Italy
party	Conservative
spouse	{{plainlist
* {{marriage	Martha Cumming	1867	1871	reason	died}}
children	2 daughters who died in infancy
occupation	Lawyer, judge
profession	Politician

Edward Barron Chandler Robert Duncan Wilmot James Mitchell

John James Fraser (August 1, 1829 – November 24, 1896) was a New Brunswick (Canada) lawyer, judge, and politician.

John Fraser was born at Beaubears Island, New Brunswick. He married twice, the first time in 1867 to Martha Cumming. She died in 1871 and in 1884 he married Jane Maria Paulette Fisher, eldest daughter of former Premier, Charles Fisher.

In 1865 he won a seat in the colonial legislature as an Anti-Confederation Party MLA but lost his seat the next year. After Canadian Confederation he ultimately joined the government and was appointed to the legislative council serving as president of the Executive Council from 1871 to 1872. That year he won a seat in the legislature and served as Provincial Secretary from 1872 to 1878 when he succeeded George E. King as Premier and Attorney-General.

Fraser was the first premier to give both the Acadian and the Irish sections of the Roman Catholic community effective representation in cabinet. Pierre-Amand Landry was made commissioner of public works, while Michael Adams became a surveyor-general with responsibility for administering crown lands.

In 1882, after running unsuccessfully for a seat in the federal parliament, Fraser left politics and was appointed to the provincial supreme court and from 1893 to 1896 he served as the ninth Lieutenant Governor of the province.

John Fraser died in 1896 in Genoa, Italy.

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