| Frederick Bartlett Fancher | |
| 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: | 2 April 1852 |
| Birth Place: | Orleans County, New York, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Party: | Republican |
Frederick Bartlett Fancher (April 2, 1852January 10, 1944) was an American politician who was the seventh Governor of North Dakota from 1899 to 1901.
Frederick B. Fancher was born in Orleans County, New York, on April 2, 1852.[1] Educated in the public schools, he also attended Michigan State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He married Florence S. Van Voorhies.[2]
Working in insurance in Illinois (where his office was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871[3]) and North Dakota, Fancher first entered politics and was President of the North Dakota Constitutional Convention in 1889.[4] 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.[5]
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.[6]
After leaving office, he moved to Sacramento, California and had a retail and wholesale grocery business until his retirement in 1925.
Fancher died in Los Angeles, California, on January 10, 1944, at age 91. He is buried in East Lawn Memorial Park in Sacramento, California.[7] He was the last surviving Governor to have served in the 19th century.