Isaac Fletcher

Isaac Fletcher ( born November 22, 1784 in Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, † October 19, 1842 in Lyndon, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1837 and 1841 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Isaac Fletcher learned an academic education. Until 1808, he studied at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). He then worked as a teacher in Chesterfield itself. After studying law and its made ​​in 1811 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession from 1812 in Lyndon. Later he was still studying to 1825 at the University of Vermont. Fletcher was also politically active in Vermont. Between 1819 and 1824 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Vermont, but he was temporarily President of the house. From 1820 to 1829, he served as district attorney in Caledonia County. In 1822, Fletcher was a member of a commission to revise the Constitution of Vermont.

Fletcher was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1836 he was chosen as their candidate in the fifth district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1837, the successor of Henry Fisk Janes, whom he had defeated in the election. After a re-election in 1838 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1841 two legislative sessions. During this time he was chairman of the Patent Committee. In the elections of 1840 he lost to John Mattocks of the Whig party.

After his time in Congress was Fletcher member of the senior staff of Governor Cornelius P. Van Ness. He died in October 1842 in his home town of Lyndon, where he was also buried.