Roger Fairchild (born c. 1953) is an American politician from

Fruitland, Idaho Fruitland is a city along the Snake and Payette rivers in Payette County, Idaho, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 95 in the Treasure Valley of southwest Idaho, about west of Boise on the border with Oregon. It is part of the Ontari ...

, active in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the Republican nominee for

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, but was defeated by the Democratic incumbent,

Cecil Andrus Cecil Dale Andrus (August 25, 1931 – August 24, 2017) was an American politician who served 26th and 28th governor of Idaho, for total of fourteen years. A Democrat, he also served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1977 to 1981 during the ...

. Fairchild was a member of the

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from 1980 to 1990, when he resigned to run for governor. In 2002, Fairchild announced his candidacy for state senate, running for the 9th district. He was defeated in the Republican primary by Monty Pearce.

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