John Fletcher (9 December 1883 – 5 June 1958) was an Australian politician who represented the
South Australian House of Assembly seat of
Mount Gambier from 1938 to 1958 as an
independent.
He was one of 14 of 39 lower house MPs at the
1938 election to be elected as an
independent, which as a grouping won 40 percent of the primary vote, more than either of the major parties.
Tom Stott was the de facto leader of the independent caucus within parliament. At the time of his death in office in 1958, it was reported that he had supported the incumbent
Tom Playford Liberal and Country League
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government, which held office with a narrow majority.
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1883 births
1958 deaths
Members of the South Australian House of Assembly
Independent members of the Parliament of South Australia
20th-century Australian politicians