Fletcher, Thomas Clement
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...1827 99, governor of Missouri (1865 69), b. Herculaneum, Mo. A Democrat opposed to slavery, he became a Republican in 1856 and supported Lincoln for the presidential nomination in 1860. In the Civil War, Fletcher commanded a Missouri...