- James Kidd Flemming
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name = James Kidd Flemming
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order = 13thPremier of New Brunswick
term_start = 1911
term_end = 1914
predecessor = J. Douglas Hazen
successor = George J. Clarke
birth_date = birth date|1868|4|27|mf=y
birth_place = Lower Woodstock, New BrunswickCanada flagicon|Canada
death_date = death date and age |1927|2|10|1868|4|27
death_place = McKenzie Corner,New Brunswick Canada flagicon|Canada
party = Conservative
spouse = Sarah Helena Flemming
religion = Methodist|James Kidd Flemming (
April 27 ,1868 –February 10 ,1927 ) was a businessman and politician inNew Brunswick ,Canada .Flemming was a
school teacher and lumberman before entering politics and serving as Provincial Secretary-Treasurer from 1908 to 1911 and Minister of Lands and Mines from 1911-1914. He succeeded Douglas Hazen as the ConservativePremier of New Brunswick in 1911. In June of 1912, Flemming led his provincial party to the biggest electoral victory in its history. In addition to two independent Conservative seats, the Conservative Party captured 42 of the province's 46 seats.Under Flemming, the
French language was used for the first time in theLegislative Assembly of New Brunswick .In 1914, Premier Flemming was forced to resign after charges of fundraising irregularities against him were made public by a powerful group of back-room Liberals known as the "Dark Lantern Brigade" led by party organizers
Peter Veniot andEdward S. Carter pluslawyer and Federal Member of Parliament, Frank Carvell.Nevertheless, Flemming remained popular and won a seat in the
Canadian House of Commons in the 1925 federal election and again in the 1926 election.He was president and director of the Flemming and Gibson lumber business in
Juniper, New Brunswick . His son,Hugh John Flemming took over the business and too entered politics, serving as Premier of New Brunswick from 1952 to 1960.James Kidd Flemming suffered from poor health for many of his adult years and died in 1927 at age fifty-eight. He and his wife Sarah are buried in the family plot at the Methodist Church Cemetery in
Woodstock, New Brunswick .Further reading
* Arthur T. Doyle, "Front Benches and Back Rooms: A story of corruption, muckraking, raw partisanship and political intrigue in New Brunswick", Toronto: Green Tree Publishing, 1976.
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* [http://www.gnb.ca/legis/leglibbib/Special_Projects/premiers-bios/english/JKFlemming.pdf Government of New Brunswick biographies of Premiers]
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