Henry A. Fletcher

Henry Addison Fletcher (born December 11, 1839 in Cavendish , Vermont , † April 19, 1897 ibid) was an American veteran of the Civil War , politician and farmer who was Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1890 to 1892 .

Life

Fletcher was born in Cavendish, Vermont. His father and grandfather were Vermont politicians. The father Ryland Fletcher was 1854-1856 Deputy Governor of Vermont and governor from 1856 to 1858 of Vermont. His grandfather, Aseph Fletcher, was a member of the assembly that asked Congress for Vermont to join the Union. He has also served in the Vermont legislature several times. He was a district judge and elector in presidential elections.

Henry Fletcher was enlisted on August 29, 1862, and was enlisted as 2nd Sergeant of Company C in the 16th Vermont Infantry. He was promoted to 1st Sergeant on October 23, 1862. He was promoted to Sergeant Major on March 9, 1863 and 2nd Lieutenant in Company C on April 23, 1863. He left the army with his regiment on August 10, 1863.

For the Republican Party , Fletcher was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1867, 1868, 1878, 1880 and 1882, and he represented Windsor County in the Vermont Senate in 1886 and was President of the Senate. He worked on committees for banks, railways, law revision and the general committee. He was also a military adviser, with the rank of colonel to Governor Redfield Proctor . In 1890 he was elected the 36th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont under Governor William W. Stickney .

Fletcher, who was not married, also managed the family estate, which had been in the family for more than 100 years. He died in Cavendish on April 19, 1897. His grave is in Cavendish Village Cemetery.

literature

• Peck, Theodore S., compiler, Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers and lists of Vermonters Who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion, 1861-66 . Montpelier, VT .: Press of the Watchman Publishing Co., 1892, pp. 549, 553.
• Ullery, Jacob G., compiler, Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont, Brattleboro, VT: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, part 2, p. 140

Individual evidence

1. ^ Henry A. Fletcher Military Commission by WG Veazey (Col.), 1863
2. ^ Journal of the Senate of the State of Vermont published in Journal of the Senate of the State of Vermont, p. 344.
3. ^ The Geography, History, Constitution and Civil Government of Vermont , by Edward Conant and Mason Sereno Stone, 1915, p. 321

Web links

• Henry A. Fletcher in the database of Find a Grave (English)