| 词条 | Duncan U. Fletcher |
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| name= Duncan Upshaw Fletcher | image name= Duncanupshawfletcher.jpg | jr/sr=United States Senator Class 3 | state=Florida | term_start=March 4, 1909 | term_end=June 17, 1936 | preceded= William Hall Milton | succeeded= William Luther Hill |office2=21st Mayor of Jacksonville |term_start2= 1893 |term_end2= 1895 |predecessor2= Henry Robinson |successor2=William M. Bostwick |office3=25th Mayor of Jacksonville |term_start3= 1901 |term_end3= 1903 |predecessor3= J. E. T. Bowden |successor3=George M. Nolan | birth_date=January 6, 1859 | birth_place=Americus, Georgia | death_date=June 17, 1936 (aged 77) | death_place=Washington, D.C. | alma_mater=Vanderbilt University | profession=Lawyer | religion=Unitarian Universalism | party= Democrat | spouse= Anna Louis Paine |}} Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (January 6, 1859{{spaced ndash}}June 17, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. Senator Fletcher was the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Florida's history. Early life and careerBorn near Americus, Georgia, Fletcher studied law at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated in 1880 and was admitted to the bar the following year. He set up a law practice in the city of Jacksonville, Florida. He was a founding member of the Jacksonville Bar Association and its first president. He was an early investor in {{convert|1300|acre|km2}} in the area now called Fort Lauderdale, more specifically Wilton Manors, to start the company known then as Florida Fiber, a sisal hemp farming operation. He was general counsel for several railroads, including the Florida East Coast Railroad, which was operated by Henry Flagler, formerly president of Standard Oil. In 1896, Fletcher was one of three attorneys appointed to administer the bar examination to James Weldon Johnson, who in addition to his many other accomplishments was the first black admitted to the Florida Bar by examination. It was Senator Fletcher who moved that Johnson be admitted to the bar over the objection of another examiner. Political careerFletcher became active in municipal politics and was elected to the city council in 1887 and served as mayor from 1893 to 1895 and from 1901 to 1903. He rebuilt Jacksonville after the devastating Great Fire of 1901. In 1893, he was elected to the Florida House of Representatives. From 1900 to 1907, Fletcher chaired the Board of Public Instruction of Duval County. In 1908, he served as president of the Gulf Coast Inland Waterways Association and later, the Mississippi to Atlantic Waterway Association. Senate careerIn 1909, the Florida Legislature elected Fletcher, a Democrat, to the United States Senate, where he served and was re-elected for four consecutive terms. In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson appointed him chairman of the United States commission to investigate European land-mortgage banks, cooperative rural credit unions, and the betterment of rural conditions in Europe. President Wilson also appointed Fletcher as a delegate to the International High Commission. Senator Fletcher served on a number of government committees, including the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, where he was chairman from 1916 to 1919, the Committee on Commerce subcommittee investigating the Titanic disaster, the high-profile chairmanship of the United States Senate Senate Banking and Currency Committee in 1932, with a mandate to examine the causes of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. His committee, generally known as the Pecora Commission, began a major process of reform of the American financial system and resulted in the passage of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that instituted disclosure laws for corporations seeking public financing plus the 1935 formation of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as a mechanism to enforce the provisions of the new Acts. In 1928, Senator Fletcher introduced legislation to create the Everglades National Park, which was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934. Fletcher died of a heart attack in Washington, D.C. and was interred in the Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville. Senator Fletcher was a trustee of John B. Stetson University and of St. Luke's Hospital Association at Jacksonville. He was vice president of the Children’s Home Society of Florida and honorary president of the Southern Commercial Congress. He also was a member of the American Bar Association and the Florida State Bar Association and president of the Florida Society. In 1907, Senator Fletcher founded the First Unitarian Church in Jacksonville, Florida. Honors
United States Senate ElectionsFlorida United States Senate election, 1908
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Notes1. ^{{cite book |last=Williams |first=Greg H. |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=A5oWBAAAQBAJ |title= The Liberty Ships of World War II: A Record of the 2,710 Vessels and Their Builders, Operators and Namesakes, with a History of the Jeremiah O’Brien |date= 25 July 2014 |publisher= McFarland |isbn= 1476617546 |accessdate= 7 December 2017 }} 2. ^DIRECT ELECTIONS TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE 1914–98 External links{{commons category|Duncan Upshaw Fletcher}}{{CongBio|F000200|name=FLETCHER, Duncan Upshaw|inline=1}}{{S-start}}{{s-par|us-sen}}{{succession box |before= William Hall Milton | title= United States Senator (Class 3) from Florida | years= 1909–1936 | after= William Luther Hill }}{{s-off}}{{succession box | before = Henry Robinson| title = Mayor of Jacksonville| years = 1893–1895 | after = William M. Bostwick}}{{succession box | before = J. E. T. Bowden| title = Mayor of Jacksonville| years = 1901–1903 | after = George M. Nolan}}{{S-end}}{{USSenFL}}{{SenBankingCommitteeChairmen}}{{SenCommerceCommitteeChairmen}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Fletcher, Duncan U.}} 11 : 1859 births|1936 deaths|Burials in Florida|Democratic Party United States Senators|Florida Democrats|Florida lawyers|Mayors of Jacksonville, Florida|People from Americus, Georgia|United States Senators from Florida|Vanderbilt University alumni|Members of the Florida House of Representatives |
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