John Wesley Fribley, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn Wesley Fribley
American politician
Date of Birth: 03-Aug-1906
Date of Death: 20-Mar-2002
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About John Wesley Fribley
- John Wesley Fribley (August 3, 1906 – March 20, 2002) was born on a farm near Assumption, Illinois, in 1906, and died in Shelbyville, Illinois, in 2002.
- He represented the 40th Senate District in the Illinois State Senate from 1934 through 1952.
- He had significant legislative achievements in transportation, oil and gas regulation, and mine safety.
- He helped investigate the Centralia mine disaster and was co-sponsor of the Illinois Mine Safety Law.
- He sponsored the Farm-to-Market Road Law, which constructed township roads and benefited rural towns in Central Illinois.
- He worked to improve the relationship between Chicago and downstate Illinois.
- Fribley was a downstate floor leader for former Governor Adlai E.
- Stevenson.Fribley first attended Illinois Wesleyan University, interested in medicine, but later transferred to the University of Illinois to study law, achieving his degree in 1930.
- He was admitted to the Illinois bar, returned to Pana, Illinois, to practice law, and married Marian Little.
- Although his family were Republican, he became a Democrat.
- The Fribleys had a son, Judge Joseph L.
- Fribley, and a daughter, Judith Fribley.
- After his career in the Senate, Fribley returned to practice law in Pana with his son.John Fribley was the first of three generations in the Fribley family to have a hole-in-one on the 7th hole at the Pana Country Club in 1971.
- His grandson, Scott Fribley, scored his first hole-in-one on the same hole four years later at age 16.
- Last but not least, John's son/Scott's father, Joseph Fribley, scored his first hole-in-one in 1992.
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