Isaac Fletcher

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Isaac Fletcher (November 22, 1784 - October 19, 1842) was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Dunstable, Massachusetts. He pursued classical studies, and was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire in 1808. He taught in the academy at Chesterfield, New Hampshire. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in December 1811 and commenced practice at Lyndon, Vermont in 1812.

Fletcher was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives 1819-1824, and served one term as speaker. He served as the prosecuting attorney of Caledonia County, Vermont 1820-1829; member of the state constitutional convention in 1822; and was graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1825. He was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1841). While in Congress he was the chairman, Committee on Patents (Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress. Later, he served as an Adjutant General on the staff of Governor Cornelius P. Van Ness. He died in Lyndon, Vermont in 1842 and was buried in Lyndon Town Cemetery.