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Fred Falley (1859–1907) was a
North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. Its platform is conservative. It is currently the dominant party in the state, controlling North Dakota's at-large U.S. House seat, both U.S. S ...
politician who served as the 3rd Secretary of State of
North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous Dakota people, Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north a ...
from 1897 to 1900. He first won election to the Secretary of State position in 1896, and served until 1900 when he did not seek re-election. Fred Falley was born on July 1, 1859, in
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. He went to school in Illinois and Wisconsin. He learned the newspaper printing trade in
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. In 1880, he moved to Wahpeton, Dakota Territory, and was employed as a printer until 1883. In 1883, Fred Falley established the ''Sargent County Teller'' newspaper in
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. He ran the newspaper until 1887 when he sold it and purchased the ''North Dakota Globe'' in Wahpeton, North Dakota. In 1885, Fred Falley married Clara Mitchell in Lancaster, Wisconsin. The couple had one son, Richard M. Falley. Clara Falley died in 1893. Fred Falley remarried in 1896 to Mrs. S. R. Pyatt in Wahpeton, North Dakota, and they had one son.


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1859 births 1907 deaths Secretaries of State of North Dakota North Dakota Republicans People of Dakota Territory {{NorthDakota-politician-stub