James Fairman Fielder

Infobox Governor
name= James Fairman Fielder


caption=
order= 35^th
office= Governor of New Jersey
term_start= March 1, 1913
term_end= October 28, 1913
predecessor= Woodrow Wilson
successor= Acting Governor Leon R. Taylor
term_start2= January 20, 1914
term_end2= January 15, 1917
predecessor2= Acting Governor Leon R. Taylor
successor2= Walter Evans Edge
spouse= Mabel Crowell Miller
birth_date= February 26, 1867
birth_place= Jersey City, New Jersey
death_date= December 2, 1954
death_place= Newark, New Jersey
party= Democrat
religion= Episcopalian

James Fairman Fielder (February 26, 1867 in Jersey City, New Jerseyndash December 2, 1954 in Newark, New Jersey) was an American Democrat politician, who served as the 35th Governor of New Jersey, from 1913 to 1917, with a break of several months when he stepped down from office to avoid constitutional limits on serving successive terms.

He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on February 26, 1867 to United States Congressman George Bragg Fielder. James trained as a lawyer and became a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from Hudson County, New Jersey from 1903 to 1904. He was a member of the New Jersey Senate from Hudson County from 1908 to 1913. James was an Episcopalian of Dutch and English ancestry.

When the New Jersey Senate convened in January 1913 after Woodrow Wilson had won the 1912 Presidential Election, the Democratic caucus selected Fielder to serve as Senate President, knowing that he would assume the position of Acting Governor after Wilson stepped down. Fielder became Acting Governor on March 1, 1913, when Woodrow Wilson stepped down to become President of the United States. Fielder resigned from his Senate office on October 28, 1913, so as to create a vacancy in the governorship and avoid constitutional limits on succeeding himself. After winning "re-election," he took office on January 20, 1914, and served a full term in office, from January 20, 1914 to January 15, 1917.

Fiedler died of a heart attack and is buried in the mausoleum in Fairmount Cemetery, Newark.

See also

*List of Governors of New Jersey

External links

* [http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Governors_of_New_Jersey/GFIEL.pdf Biography of James Fairman Fielder (PDF)] , New Jersey State Library
* [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=d5ef3058be3f9010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD New Jersey Governor James Fairman Fielder] , National Governors Association
* [http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2rdt7/DGovs/deadgovernorsnj.html#fielder Dead Governors of New Jersey - James F. Fielder]