Fletcher Family
Andrew Jackson Fletcher
John Fletcher, Sr., and Leah A. Brooks were married 10 September 1807 in Carter County. Their son, Andrew Jackson Fletcher, was a prominent 19th Century Tennessee statesman. Their grandson, Andrew Jackson Fletcher, was memorialized in a biographical sketch in the Bradley County section of Goodspeed’s History of East Tennessee (1887):
Andrew J. FLETCHER, circuit court clerk of Bradley County, was born March 11, 1861, in Greene County. He is the eldest of the two sons and three daughters born to Andrew J. and Emma (HICKEY) FLETCHER, both natives of East Tennessee.
The father was an eminent lawyer. He was State senator two or three terms, and speaker of the Senate one term. During the administration of BROWNLOW, and till 1870, he was Secretary of State. He died in 1870. His first marriage was with Miss Catherine SMITH, by whom he had one son and three daughters. His second wife, and mother of our subject is still living.
Andrew J. FLETCHER was raised on a farm, with but meager educational advantages. At the age of twenty-one he began teaching school and studying law. He was admitted to the bar in 1885, and the following year was elected to his present position. He is a stanch Republican, universally known and highly respected, and is the youngest man ever elected to a county office in Bradley County, defeating two of the most popular men in the county in the Republican nominating convention…