Henry P. Fletcher
Henry Prather Fletcher (April 10, 1873 – July 10, 1959) was an American diplomat.
Biography
Fletcher was born in Greencastle, Pennsylvania in 1873. He was the fourth cousin once removed of William McKinley.
After the United States declared war on Spain in 1898, he joined Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders as a private in Troop K.
He later worked as a diplomat, serving as U.S. Minister to Chile from 1909 to 1914 and to Luxembourg from 1923 to 1924. He also served as Ambassador to Chile from 1914 to 1916; Mexico, 1916 to 1919; Belgium, 1922 to 1924; and Italy from 1924 to 1929.
He was also Chairman of the Republican Party from 1934 to 1936 and was a delegate to the Republican national conventions in 1936 and 1940.
He died in 1959 at his home in Newport, Rhode Island, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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H. Lee Prather
Henry Lee Prather (October 10, 1886 – September 23, 1964) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute for one season in 1912, compiling a record of 3–4. He is best known, however, for his tenures as the head football and men's basketball coach at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Prather coached the Demons' football team between 1913 and 1917, and again from 1919 through 1933. The 1918 season was canceled because of World War I. In 20 seasons as coach at NSU, Prather compiled an overall record of 79–51–14. Including his one season at SLII, his overall football record was 82–55–14.
As the head basketball coach at NSU, Prather's tenure was very interrupted. He was the on-again, off-again coach seven different times. Basketball had not quite become as established as a sport as football in the United States, so he alternated many of the years with having no program at all. In his 35 total years as the school's coach, Prather accumulated an overall record of 473–169. He stepped down in 1950 to become Northwestern State University's president in 1951. He is still the all-time leader in victories for men's basketball by more than 300 wins to the second closest coach, Red Thomas, who compiled 138 between 1950 and 1957.
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