Thomas Fletcher (Kentucky)

Thomas Fletcher ( born October 21, 1779 at Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, † after 1825 at Sharpsburg, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1816 and 1817 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Not much is known about the youth of Thomas Fletcher. He later moved into the Montgomery County, Kentucky. In his new home state, he began a political career as a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the years 1803, 1805 and 1806, he was elected to the House of Representatives from Kentucky. During the British - American War of 1812 Major Fletcher was under the command of General William Henry Harrison.

Following the resignation of Mr James Clark in 1816, Fletcher was the first electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 2, 1816. Since he resigned at the regular congressional elections of 1816 on another candidacy, he could only finish the partly used term in Congress until March 3, 1817. Between 1817 and 1825 Fletcher was several times delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. He died near Sharpsburg; his date of death is not known.