Samuel Fletcher (politician)

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Samuel Fletcher (died 1950) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba representing the Killarney constituency from 1920 to 1922.{{Cite web|url=https://gov.mb.ca/legislature/members/mla_bio_deceased.html|title=MLA Biographies - Deceased|last=Manitoba|first=Legislative Assembly of|website=gov.mb.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-08-15}}

Fletcher worked as a farmer, and lived in Holmfield, Manitoba, where he served as a member of the West Derby School board.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/fletcher_s.shtml|title=Memorable Manitobans: Samuel Fletcher (1858-1950)|last=Goldsborough|first=Gordon|website=www.mhs.mb.ca|access-date=2018-08-15}} He was then elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1920 provincial election, defeating Liberal incumbent Samuel M. Hayden by 396 votes. Fletcher was elected as a Farmer candidate, representing a movement that opposed the province's two-party system of Liberals and Conservatives.

He sat with the Independent-Farmer group in the legislature, and did not seek re-election in 1922.