monarch death_date children birth_date term_end death_place governor_general imagesize order term_start spouse image name occupation caption predecessor birth_place alongside professional party office lieutenant_governor successor religion premier article_title
victoria victoria 24 november 1896 2 daughters who died in infancy 1 august 1829 may 1 , 1866 may 25 , 1882 25 , 1882 november 24 , 1896 june genoa , italy the earl of aberdeen 180px 5th new brunswick premier of new brunswick 9th lieutenant governor of may 2 , 1865 august 3 , 1872 3 , 1878 december 20 , 1893 march martha 1884 cumming 1867 1871 died jane m. paulette fisher john james fraser.png john james fraser lawyer , judge justice john james fraser george hatheway e. king john boyd charles fisher george luther beaubears island , new brunswick canada george campbell allen robert robinson , andrew george blair , charles luther mcpherson , thomas f. barker , frederick p. thompson , hatheway john adolphus beckwith , hiram dow , george j. colter , william hayden needham , john politician conservative mla for york samuel leonard tilley edward barron chandler robert duncan wilmot daniel ludlow wetmore l. hanington abner reid mcclelan charles fisher edward presbyterian andrew george blair james mitchell john james fraser

john james fraser

john james fraser -lrb- august 1 , 1829 -- november 24 , 1896 -rrb- was a new brunswick -lrb- canada -rrb- lawyer , judge , and politician .
john fraser was born at beaubears island , northumberland county , new brunswick .
he married twice , the first time in 1867 to martha cumming .
she died in 1871 and in 1884 he married jane m. 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 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 .
