Evan Frasure

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Evan Frasure
Member of the Idaho Senate
In office
December 1, 1990 November 30, 2002
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Born (1951-03-20) March 20, 1951 (age 73)
Political party Republican

Evan S. Frasure (born March 20, 1951) is an American politician from Idaho. He served in the Idaho House of Representatives and Idaho Senate.

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Frasure is from Pocatello, Idaho. [1] He graduated from Idaho State University in 1977. [2]

Frasure served in the Idaho Legislature for 12 years. He did not run for reelection in 2002 to run for secretary of state of Idaho, but he lost to Ben Ysursa. [3] He became a history teacher at Century High School in Pocatello. [4] Frasure ran for secretary of state in the 2014 elections, facing Lawerence Denney, Phil McGrane, and Mitch Toryanski in the Republican primary election. Frasure lost the race to Denney. [5]

Frasure defeated Steve Hadley in the 2016 election for the county commission for Bannock County, Idaho. [6] He was sworn into office on January 9, 2017. [7] He resigned in November 2017 when he was appointed state director of the Farm Service Agency in the United States Department of Agriculture. [8]

Electoral history

Idaho Secretary of State Republican primary election, 2014
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Lawerence Denney 51,04137.1%
Republican Phil McGrane 38,33627.9%
RepublicanEvan Frasure26,53919.3%
Republican Mitch Toryanski 21,63015.7%

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  4. "CHS teacher Evan Frasure to run for secretary of state".
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  7. "Three Bannock County Commissioners, Say Goodbye". KPVI.
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