Boswell, H. James. American Blue Book Western Washington. Seattle, Lowman and
Hanford Co., 1922. p. 88.

JOHN A. FRATER is first assistant United States district Attorney, in Seattle,
and one of the best prosecutors that office has had.  Mr. Frater is a native
of Kansas where he was born in 1887.  His distingushed father, Judge Archibald
W. Frater, is on the King County Superior bench, one of the ablest jurists on
the Pacific coast.  John A. Frater's educational training was in public
schools, following which he attended the University of Washington, from whence
he graduated with the class of 1910, taking the B. A. degree.  Three years
later he graduated with the degree of LL. Bl from the Law Department of the
same institution.  For about two years following this Mr. Frater was in the
office of Charles H. Winders, General Attorney for the Northern Pacific
Railroad, and later was engaged in the general practice of his profession.
From 1919 to 1921 Mr. Frater served as Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for King
county, and for a period of nearly a year was in charge of state bonus matters
in Olympia.  As chief assistant to United States District Attorney Revelle,
Mr. Frater has on many occasions demonstrated his splendid capacity as a
lawyer.  For a man of his age and the length of time that he has been in
practice, I doubt if he has a superior in the state as a prosecutor.  His
examinations and cross examinations are prosecutor.  His examinations and
cross examinations are severe, but always in strict accordance with law and
invariably in a courteous manner, there being no effort at any time, on his
part, to brow-beat a witness.  His arguments are logical and cover every angle
of the case at bar.  In 1917 Mr. Frater married Miss Ruby E. Cannon, of Boise,
Idaho.

Submitted by: Judy Bivens

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