Richard Fletcher (politician)

Richard Fletcher ( born January 8, 1788 in Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, † June 21, 1869 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1837 and 1839 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Fletcher enjoyed a good basic education and then studied until 1806 at Dartmouth College in Hanover. From 1806 to 1808, he worked as a teacher in Salisbury, also in the state of New Hampshire. After a subsequent law degree in 1809 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Salisbury in this profession. Since 1819 he lived in Boston. In the 1830s he proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1836 Fletcher was the first electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Abbott Lawrence on March 4, 1837. Since he resigned in 1838 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1839. Between 1848 and 1853, was Richard Fletcher Judge at the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. He died on June 21, 1869 in Boston.