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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaDuncan Upshaw FLETCHER
(1859-1936)
Senate Years of Service:
1909-1936Party: DemocratFLETCHER, Duncan Upshaw, a
Senator from Florida; born near Americus, Sumter County, Ga.,
January 6, 1859; moved with his parents to Monroe County in 1860;
attended the common schools and Gordon Institute, Barnesville, Ga.;
graduated from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1880;
studied law at the same institution; admitted to the bar in 1881
and commenced practice in Jacksonville, Fla.; member, city council
1887; member, State house of representatives 1893; mayor of
Jacksonville 1893-1895, 1901-1903; chairman of the board of public
instruction of Duval County 1900-1907; president of the Gulf Coast
Inland Waterways Association in 1908, and, later, of the
Mississippi to Atlantic Waterway Association; appointed and
subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate for
the term commencing March 4, 1909; reelected in 1914, 1920, 1926,
and 1932, and served from March 4, 1909, until his death on June
17, 1936; chairman, Committee on Printing (Sixty-third and
Sixty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Commerce (Sixty-fourth and
Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Transportation Routes to the
Seaboard (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Banking and Currency
(Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses); president of the
Southern Commercial Congress 1912-1918; appointed by President
Woodrow Wilson in 1913 as chairman of the United States commission
to investigate European land-mortgage banks, cooperative rural
credit unions, and the betterment of rural conditions in Europe;
delegate to the International High Commission at Buenos Aires,
Argentina, in 1916; died in Washington, D.C.; interment in
Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, Fla.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Flynt, Wayne. Duncan
Upshaw Fletcher, Dixie’s Reluctant Progressive.
Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1971; U.S. Congress.
Memorial Addresses. 75th Cong., 1st sess., 1937. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1938.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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