Donald Fraser
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| Born | Donald MacKay Fraser 20 February 1924 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. | |||||||||
| Died | 2 June 2019 (Age 95) | |||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) | |||||||||
| Children | 6 | |||||||||
| Spouse | Arvonne Skelton | |||||||||
| Exposed | Koreagate | |||||||||
| Member of | Trilateral Commission | |||||||||
| Party | Democratic | |||||||||
Single Bilderberg liberal Congressman, later Mayor of Minneapolis. Trilateral Commission.
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Donald MacKay Fraser was an American politician. A liberal Democrat and protégé of Hubert H. Humphrey, the former Minnesota senator and vice president under Lyndon B. Johnson, Fraser sat eight terms in the House of Representatives. He attended the 1971 Bilderberg meeting and was a member of the [Trilateral Commission]]. He later became Mayor of Minneapolis.
Education
Fraser studied at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis until 1944 as part of the Naval ROTC. From 1944 to 1946 he served as a radar officer in the Pacific Ocean. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1948 and was admitted to the bar the same year.[1]
Career
Fraser worked as a lawyer in Minneapolis.
He was a member of the Minnesota Senate from 1954 to 1962. After that, Fraser moved to the US Congress, to which he was elected as a candidate of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. He represented the state of Minnesota in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1963 to January 3, 1979.
He was one of the most outspoken opponents of American involvement in the Vietnam War.[2]
Fraser's Subcommittee on International Organizations, pursuing information from a Korean defector, documented a vast plot, dating to 1970, that bestowed cash, gifts, campaign contributions, honorary degrees and other favors on American officials. hTe committee's 447-page report, made public on November 29, 1977, exposed a conspiracy by South Korean intelligence officials and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in the 1970s to buy political influence in America and manipulate United States foreign policies and currency laws.[2]
In 1978, he refrained from running again for a seat in the House of Representatives and instead tried to be elected to the United States Senate. However, this project failed; he was defeated in the primary by Democrat Bob Short, who subsequently lost the Senate election to Republican David Durenberger.[1]
Mr. Fraser was a Democratic Party reformer, and from 1974 to 1976 was president of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action.[2] Following Hubert Humphrey's loss to Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential race, Fraser, along with South Dakota Sen. George McGovern, led a Democratic National Committee that took 15 months to come up with rules that opened up the party's process for selecting presidential candidates.[3]
In 1979, Fraser was elected mayor of Minneapolis for a two-year term beginning in January 1980. He was re-elected for a four-year term in 1981 and 1985.[1]
Fraser lived in Minneapolis until his death in June 2019.
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1971 | 23 April 1971 | 25 April 1971 | US Vermont Woodstock Woodstock Inn | The 20th Bilderberg, 89 guests |
