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{{Short description|American politician (1890–1978)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name        = James Beriah Frazier Jr.
| image       = James B. Frazier Jr. (Tennessee Congressman) (3x4).jpg
| caption     =
| state       = [[Tennessee]]
| district    = [[Tennessee's 3rd congressional district|3rd]]
| term_start  = January 3, 1949
| term_end    = January 3, 1963
| preceded    = [[Estes Kefauver]]
| succeeded   = [[Bill Brock]]
| birth_date  = {{birth date text|June 23, 1890}}
| death_date  = {{death-date and age|October 30, 1978|June 23, 1890}}
| birth_place = [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]]
| death_place = [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]]
| citizenship = {{US}}
| spouse      = Catherine Elizabeth Hope Frazier
| profession  = [[Lawyer|Attorney]]
| party       = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| alma_mater  = [[University of Virginia]]
[[Chattanooga College of Law]]
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|allegiance         = {{flagicon|United States of America}} [[United States of America]]
|branch             = [[United States Army]]
|serviceyears       = April 21, 1917 - March 1919
|rank               = [[File:US-O4 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Major (rank)|Major]]
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|commands           =
|battles            = [[World War I]]
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'''James Beriah Frazier Jr.''' (June 23, 1890 – October 30, 1978) was a [[United States|U.S.]] [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] [[politician]].
==Early life==
Frazier was born in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]]. His father was [[James B. Frazier]], who served as [[Governor of Tennessee]] from 1903 to 1905 and as a [[United States senator]] from [[Tennessee]] from 1905 to 1911. His mother was Louise Douglas (Keith) Frazier.
He was educated in the public schools and Baylor Preparatory School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended the [[University of Virginia]] at Charlottesville and graduated from [[Chattanooga College of Law]] in 1914. Admitted to the bar in the same year, he began his practice of law in Chattanooga.
==Career==
During the First World War, Frazier volunteered for service in the United States Army on April 21, 1917, and was discharged as a major in March 1919. Frazier was appointed United States attorney for the eastern district of Tennessee on September 25, 1933, and served until his resignation on April 12, 1948.<ref>{{cite web|title=James B. Frazier Jr.|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000353|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate=13 May 2013}}</ref>  He married Elizabeth Hope on March 30, 1939, and they had one daughter, Elizabeth Hope Frazier.<ref>{{cite web|title=James B. Frazier Jr.|url=http://findingaids.library.utc.edu/Frazier.html|publisher=University of Tennessee at Chattanooga|accessdate=13 May 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130626184037/http://findingaids.library.utc.edu/Frazier.html|archive-date=26 June 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Elected as a Democrat to the [[United States House of Representatives]] from Tennessee, Frazier served from January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1963.<ref>{{cite web|title=James B. Frazier Jr.|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/james_frazier/404300|publisher=Govtrack US Congress|accessdate=13 May 2013}}</ref> He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress, and resumed the practice of law in Chattanooga.
He was a signatory to the 1956 [[Southern Manifesto]] that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]''.
==Death==
Frazier died in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, on October 30, 1978 (age 88 years, 129 days). He is [[burial|interred]] at Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tennessee.<ref>{{cite web|title=James B. Frazier Jr.|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/frazier-frechette.html|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=13 May 2013}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/spc/view?docId=ead/0012_000397_000000_0000/0012_000397_000000_0000.xml;query=james%20frazier;brand=default Frazier & Frazier Papers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810173016/http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/spc/view?docId=ead%2F0012_000397_000000_0000%2F0012_000397_000000_0000.xml%3Bquery%3Djames%20frazier%3Bbrand%3Ddefault |date=2016-08-10 }}, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries
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[[Category:United States Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:United States Attorneys for the Eastern District of Tennessee]]
[[Category:Tennessee lawyers]]
[[Category:Politicians from Chattanooga, Tennessee]]
[[Category:Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee]]
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[[Category:University of Virginia alumni]]
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[[Category:Signatories of the Southern Manifesto]]