Forest Fletcher (April 27, 1888 – November 27, 1945) was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee and died in Lexington, Virginia.
In 1912 he finished seventh in the standing high jump event and ninth in the standing long jump competition.
He served with a medical ambulance unit in Europe during World War I, married Laura Powell Tucker of Lexington, Virginia, and was the father of Rosa Fletcher Crocker, Henrietta Fletcher Horan, and Forest Fletcher. He was track coach at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He is the grandfather of the great Colgate football hero, Patrick Horan, and ten other accomplished people.
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