James Kidd Flemming was a businessman and politician in New 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 Conservative Premier of New Brunswick in 1911. In June 1912, Flemming led his provincial party to the biggest electoral victory in its history.

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  • James Kidd Flemming was a businessman and politician in New 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 Conservative Premier of New Brunswick in 1911. In June 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 the Legislative 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 and Edward S. Carter plus lawyer 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.
  • L'honorable James Kidd Flemming était un homme d'affaires et homme politique néo-brunswickois. En 1911 il succède à John Douglas Hazen au poste de premier ministre du Nouveau-Brunswick, mais est forcé à démissionner 1914 après avoir été reconnu coupable d'irrégularités dans la collecte de fonds. Néanmoins, Flemming demeure populaire et remporte un siège à la Chambre des communes du Canada dans l'élection fédérale de 1925; il est réélu en 1926. Il meurt en 1927.
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  • James Kidd Flemming was a businessman and politician in New 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 Conservative Premier of New Brunswick in 1911. In June 1912, Flemming led his provincial party to the biggest electoral victory in its history.
  • L'honorable James Kidd Flemming était un homme d'affaires et homme politique néo-brunswickois. En 1911 il succède à John Douglas Hazen au poste de premier ministre du Nouveau-Brunswick, mais est forcé à démissionner 1914 après avoir été reconnu coupable d'irrégularités dans la collecte de fonds. Néanmoins, Flemming demeure populaire et remporte un siège à la Chambre des communes du Canada dans l'élection fédérale de 1925; il est réélu en 1926. Il meurt en 1927.
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