Ryland Fletcher

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name=Ryland Fletcher


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order=24^th
office= Governor of Vermont
term_start= 1856
term_end= 1858
lieutenant= James M. Slade
predecessor= Stephen Royce
successor=Hiland Hall
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party= Republican
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Ryland Fletcher was elected as the Whig, Free Soil and Liberty Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont in 1854, then as the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Vermont in 1855, and then was the Republicangovernor of Vermont from 1856 to 1858. After leaving office, he served in the Vermont legislature and was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1870. He was born on February 18, 1799 in Cavendish, Vt. He died on December 19, 1885 in the village of Proctorsville Cavendish, Vt.

In his early years he worked on his father's farm and taught in a local school. He was a member of the Vermont state militia, where he attained the rank of Brigadier-General.

Fletcher was a member of the anti-immigrant Know-Nothings in 1856. Fletcher had said that "immigrants brought with them the 'mortal disease (of) monarchy and despotism, of Romanism and heathenism... which left unchecked would sweep away our most cherished liberties and dearist institutions.'" [Mark Bushnell [http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080120/FEATURES07/801200338/1016/FEATURES07&template=printart Life in the Past Lane: "Swedish Wave Was Meant to Save Vermont"] The Sunday Rutland Herald, Jan. 20, 2008]

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