He was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1837, until March 3, 1841.[9] While in Congress, he was the Chairman of the Committee on Patents. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress.
Personal life
Fletcher married Abigail Stone on February 4, 1812. They had one son, Charles B. Fletcher.[10]
Death
Fletcher's health declined rapidly during his final term in Congress, which was attributed by doctors to overwork. He died in Lyndon on October 19, 1842, and is interred at the Lyndon Town Cemetery in Lyndon.[11]
References
^Nason and Varney (1890). Massachusetts Gazetteer. Nason and Varney. p. 279. Archived from the original on December 10, 2018. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
"A history of the town of Dunstable, Massachusetts, from its earliest settlement to the year of Our Lord 1873" by Elias Nason and George Bailey Loring, published by A. Mudge, 1877.