{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{for|the Olympic sprinter|Jimmy Flemming}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = James Kidd Flemming | image = James_Kidd_Flemming.jpg | image_size = | caption = | order2 = Member of Parliament for Victoria—Carleton | term_start2 = October 29, 1925 | term_end2 = February 10, 1927 | predecessor2 = Thomas W. Caldwell | successor2 = Albion R. Foster | order = 14th Premier of New Brunswick | term_start = October 16, 1911 | term_end = December 6, 1914 | monarch = George V | lieutenant_governor = Lemuel John Tweedie<br />Josiah Wood | predecessor = J. Douglas Hazen | successor = George J. Clarke | order3 = MLA for Carleton | term_start3 = January 14, 1900 | term_end3 = December 6, 1914 | predecessor3 = Charles L. Smith | successor3 = Benjamin Franklin Smith | alongside3 = Hugh H. McCain, Benjamin Franklin Smith, George W. Upham, George L. White, Stephen B. Appleby, Wendell P. Jones, Donald Munro | birth_date = {{birth date|1868|4|27|mf=y}} | birth_place = Lower Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age |1927|2|10|1868|4|27}} | death_place = McKenzie Corner, New Brunswick, Canada | party = Conservative | spouse = {{marriage|Sarah Helena Flemming|1890}} | children = 3 sons, 2 daughters | relations = Hugh John Flemming (son) | alma_mater = | occupation = Businessman, lumberman, teacher | profession = Politician }} '''James Kidd Flemming''' (April 27, 1868 – February 10, 1927) 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 to 1914. He succeeded Douglas Hazen as the Premier of New Brunswick in 1911. In the June 1912 general election, 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 House of Commons of Canada 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 Helena are buried in the family plot at the Methodist Church Cemetery in Woodstock, New Brunswick.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NBCemeteries/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&Key=80380|title=FLEMMING, James Kidd (Hon.)|work=New Brunswick Cemeteries|publisher=Provincial Archives of New Brunswick|access-date=2 November 2010}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{DictCanbio|ID=8137}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20081219204031/http://www.gnb.ca/legis/leglibbib/Special_Projects/premiers-bios/english/JKFlemming.pdf Government of New Brunswick biographies of Premiers] * {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7987380/hon_j_k_flemming_died_this_afternoon/|title=Hon. J. K. Flemming Died This Afternoon|work=The Ottawa Journal|date=10 Feb 1927|pages=1,[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7987467/hon_jk_flemming_p_2/ 2]|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=24 December 2016}}
==Further reading== * Arthur T. Doyle, ''Front Benches and Back Rooms: A story of corruption, muckraking, raw partisanship and political intrigue in New Brunswick'', Toronto: Green Tree Publishing, 1976.
==External links== * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=5995}}
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