Biography

From Wikipedia: 
"was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. The brother of Governor Ryland Fletcher, he was born in Cavendish, Vermont on January 8, 1788. He pursued classical studies and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1806. He taught school in Salisbury, New Hampshire, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice there.

He moved to Boston in 1819 and was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1839). Fletcher was not a candidate for renomination to the Twenty-sixth Congress. He served as a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court 1848–1853, and died in Boston on June 21, 1869. His interment was in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.

Fletcher was elected to be the first president of the American Statistical Association, although by the ASA's own admission, he was "little more than a figurehead"

Mentioned in 18371118SSS_WHS "I might add HGW opened & Closed the 
meeting with many sound remarks,
read a speech of Mr Flitcher  of Boston 
commented on it and argued himself
much better than in any other public
meeting I have ever heard him"

Fletcher had just published a speech on November 6. See Speech of Richard Fletcher to his constituents : delivered in Faneuil Hall, Monday, Nov. 6, 1837 on Haithi Trust: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009734462