Thomas Clement Fletcher
Thomas Clement Fletcher | |
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Willard Preble Hall | |
Succeeded by | Joseph W. McClurg |
Personal details | |
Born | Thomas Clement Fletcher January 21, 1827 47th Missouri Infantry 50th Missouri infantry |
Battles/wars | American Civil War (POW)
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Thomas Clement Fletcher (January 21, 1827 – March 25, 1899) was the
Early life and career
Fletcher was born in Herculaneum, Missouri. His parents had immigrated to Missouri from Maryland in 1818. He received a public school education and was elected circuit clerk in Jefferson County, Missouri, from 1849 until 1856. He was admitted to the bar in 1857.
Fletcher became a land agent for the southwest branch of the
Civil War
Fletcher was a delegate to the 1860
Returning home because of illness in the spring of 1864, Fletcher recovered in time to organize the 47th and 50th Missouri infantry regiments and to command a regiment at the Battle of Pilot Knob, Missouri, where General Sterling Price's advance on St. Louis was stalled. For this service, he was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers.
After the war, he became a companion of the Missouri Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
Political career
Fletcher was nominated for governor of Missouri by the
He was unsuccessful, however, in his repeated efforts to obtain a constitutional amendment abolishing the
After serving as governor, Fletcher returned to St. Louis and practiced law for a time. He then moved to Washington, D.C., where he continued to practice until his death. He wrote Life and Reminiscences of General Wm. T. Sherman (1891).
He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.
Fletcher, Missouri, is named after him, as was the U.S. Army's Fort Fletcher in Kansas.
See also
History of slavery in Missouri
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Fletcher, Thomas C (1865). Missouri's Jubilee. Jefferson City, MO: W A Curry, Public Printer. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
- "Death List of a Day", p. 7, New York Times, 1899-3-26, Historical New York Times retrieved 2006-8-6 via ProQuest, St. Louis County, Missouri library
- "Thomas Clement Fletcher." Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group.[permanent dead link]