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Thomas Clement Fletcher (Eighteenth governor of the State of Missouri, attorney, soldier, and politician.)

b. 1827-01-21 d. 1899-03-25

Eighteenth governor of the State of Missouri, attorney, soldier, and politician. Jefferson County, Missouri, native. Son of Clement B. Fletcher and Margaret Byrd Fletcher. Married to Mary Clara Honey Fletcher in Jefferson County, Missouri, on April 16, 1851. Father of Edwin L. Fletcher and Ella F. Fletcher. Clerk of the Jefferson Circuit Court from 1849 to 1856. Admitted to the bar in 1857. Attorney in Jefferson County in 1860. Served in the 31st Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from October 7, 1862, to June 16, 1864. Captured at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Warren County, Mississippi, on December 29, 1862. Prisoner of war at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, from March 23, 1863, to May 5, 1863. Served in the 47th Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from September 16, 1864, to November 18, 1864. Governor of the State of Missouri from January 2, 1865, to January 12, 1869.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, Jefferson County, District 42, p. 407A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, Jefferson County, Valle, p. 509.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis County, St. Louis Ward 2, 417B.

Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, Jefferson County.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Missouri, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M405, Roll 0614.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Missouri, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M405, Roll 0681.

John Howard Brown, ed., Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States, vol. 3 (Boston: James H. Lamb Company, 1900), 123.

John H. Reppy, "Thomas Clement Fletcher," in The Messages and Proclamations of the Governors of the State of Missouri, vol. IV, eds. Grace Gilmore Avery and Floyd C. Shoemaker (Columbia, MO: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 1924), 43-52.

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Fletcher, Thomas Clement. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196715 (November 12, 2026).

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