{"id":1375,"date":"2012-09-05T22:48:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T03:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:29:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:29:52","slug":"fletcher-andrew-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/fletcher-andrew-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"FLETCHER, Andrew Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Cleveland<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FLETCHER, Andrew Jackson<\/strong>, lawyer: born Greenville, Tenn., March 11, 1861; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>A. J. <\/strong>and <strong>Emma (Hickey) FLETCHER<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, lawyer, and served one term in Senate before the war and was Secretary of State 1867-18; received common school education; reared on farm and worked while attending school; married <strong>Ella P. BLANTON<\/strong> Feb. 12, 1889; Republican; elected Circuit Court Clerk of Bradley Co., 1886; re-elected 1890; elected Attorney-General 17<sup>th<\/sup> circuit in 1894; re-elected Attorney-General of 4<sup>th<\/sup> circuit 1902, making 24 years of continuous public office holding; sole owner and proprietor of the Fletcher &amp; Harrison Nurseries, one of the largest exclusive peach tree nurseries in the world; was a delegate to Republican National Convention Chicago 1908, and is now president of the Tennessee Nurserymen\u2019s Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Cleveland FLETCHER, Andrew Jackson, lawyer: born Greenville, Tenn., March 11, 1861; Scotch-Irish descent; son of A. J. and Emma (Hickey) FLETCHER; father\u2019s occupation, lawyer, and served one term in Senate before the war and was Secretary of State 1867-18; received common school education; reared on farm and worked while attending school; married Ella P. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,254,4410,4419],"tags":[1067,671,1066],"class_list":{"0":"post-1375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bradley","7":"category-greene","8":"category-surname-f","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-blanton","11":"tag-fletcher","12":"tag-hickey","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15088,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/15088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}