Loren Fletcher

Loren Fletcher ( born April 10, 1833 in Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, Maine, † April 15, 1919 in Atlanta, Georgia ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1907 he represented twice the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Loren Fletcher attended the common schools and the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kents Hill. In 1853 he moved to Bangor. There he worked as a stonemason and as a store clerk. At times, he was also employed at a wood processing company. 1856 Fletcher moved to Minneapolis in Minnesota on. There he was mainly engaged in the timber trade. Following the establishment in 1864 of the local First National Bank, he was a board member of this financial institution.

Politically, Fletcher member of the Republican Party. Between 1872 and 1886 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Minnesota; since 1880, he was its president. In the congressional elections of 1892 he was in the fifth electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Kittel Halvorson on March 4, 1893. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1903 five contiguous legislatures. During this time, including the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell. Between 1901 and 1903, Fletcher Chairman of the Committee for monitoring the expenditure on state property.

In the elections of 1902, Loren Fletcher was defeated by Democrat John Lind. In the next elections in 1904 succeeded Fletcher but to regain his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he graduated between 4 March 1905 and 3 March 1907, further legislative period. In 1906 he gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in Congress to Fletcher withdrew from politics and the business world. The following years until his death in April 1919 in Atlanta he spent in retirement.

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