Frank W. Higgins

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Frank Wayland Higgins (August 18, 1856 - February 12, 1907) was a Governor of New York. He was a Republican.

Higgins was born in Rushford, New York in 1856. Member of New York state senate between 1894 and 1902. He was the Lieutenant Governor of New York between 1903 and 1904; then he became the Governor of New York.

Higgins was a member of the Masons, and the Olean lodge is named after him.

Higgins died in Olean, New York in 1907.

Preceded by
Timothy L. Woodruff
Lieutenant Governor of New York
1903-1904
Succeeded by
M. Linn Bruce
Preceded by
Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.
Governor of New York
1905–1906
Succeeded by
Charles Evans Hughes