HOOPLE (AP) - The grave site of former governor and U.S. senator Lynn Frazier has been restored in a cemetery in this small northeastern North Dakota town.

Frazier, a Hoople native, was North Dakota's governor from 1917 to 1921 and later served 18 years in Congress. He helped lead the agrarian revolt that carried the Nonpartisan League to power in Bismarck, and also signed legislation that gave women the right to vote in North Dakota.

"He did some other important things," said David Danbom, a North Dakota State University history professor. "The first minimum wage laws for women came out of his administration, minimum wage-maximum hours laws for women, what were called 'mothers' pensions,' which were kind of a forerunner of Aid For Dependent Children."

Neil Fedje of Cavalier and Jerry Olson of Hoople were tending another grave in Park Cemetery last year when they came upon Frazier's grave and noted that it was neglected and had no memorial to his government service and achievements. They helped arrange the restoration project, which includes a brass plaque.

"There aren't many cemeteries that have a governor," Olson said.

He asked his grandchildren if they knew who Lynn Frazier was. They didn't.

"I think the unfortunate thing is that here he was a role model, a character who accomplished a great deal, and nobody knows about him," Olson said. "He had a real impact on the state."

The plaque does not mention that Frazier was thrown out of office midway into his third, two-year term as governor.