Frank Doran

Frank Beecher Doran (May 1, 1839 — February 1, 1914) was a Republican politician and the 24th mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, holding office between 1896 and 1898.

Following the war, Doran returned to farming in Illinois. In 1894, he left the Assembly and ran for mayor for the first time, also on the Republican Citizens' ticket, but lost to Robert A. Smith. In 1896, however, he won the mayoral election over O. O. Cullen, "who was regarded as the stronger candidate." By this point, he had left the Republican Citizen's Party for the Republican Party. In 1897, Doran ran for Governor of Minnesota but lost to David Marston Clough.

Despite this, the Republicans renominated Doran for mayor in 1902, though he again lost by about 1,800 votes to Smith, whose election marked the third time he had been elected mayor. The following year, he was appointed to the city's Charter Commission. Throughout his career, he had been President of the Chamber of Commerce several times, as well as President of the Minnesota Soldiers' Home Board of Trustees. Doran retired in February 1911. Charles, and Wilson James. Doran's brother John died in 1895 of "tuberculosis of the bone".

In 1905, Doran developed blood poisoning after ignoring a sore on his foot. On February 1, 1914, he died suddenly, perhaps from a seizure, stroke, or heart disease, in his Saint Paul home while reading a newspaper in front of the fire with his daughter.