William C. Frazer
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William Clark Frazer was an United States
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 territorial judge.

Born in New Castle, Delaware
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, he studied law in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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. Frazer gave a eulogy in the Masonic Lodge
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, in Lancaster, on the death of George Washington
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in 1799. In 1836, Frazer was appointed to the Wisconsin Territorial Supreme Court and he died in office in 1838.
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