Asa Adgate

Asa Adgate (born November 17, 1767 in Canaan , Province of New York , † February 15, 1832 in Chesterfield , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1815 and 1817 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Asa Adgate was born and raised in Canaan during the British colonial era. In 1793 he moved to Adgates Falls on the Ausable River and from there to the township of Peru in Clinton County (now Ausable Chasm in the township of Chesterfield in Essex County ), where he worked as an iron manufacturer and pursued agricultural work. After the founding of the Town of Peru in 1793, he was appointed town clerk ( town clerk selected) and re-elected 1794th He served as town supervisor in 1795 and as assessor in 1796 and 1797 . In 1798 he worked as Commissioner of Schools . That same year he served in the New York State Assembly for Clinton County . He served as a lieutenant in the Clinton County Infantry in the New York National Guard in 1798 and 1799 . On March 9, 1799, Governor John Jay appointed him on the First Commission of Peace for Essex County as a judge on the Court of Common Pleas - a position he held for several years.

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . He was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in a by-election on June 7, 1815 in the twelfth constituency of New York to fill the vacancy created by the death of Benjamin Pond . Since he on a run again in 1816 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1817 Congress of.

After his time at the Congress, he went back to his previous activities. In 1823 he was a member of the New York State Assembly for Essex County. He died on February 15, 1832 in Ausable Chasm and was buried in Ausable Chasm Cemetery in the township of Ausable .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 70, 76, 172, 199 and 255.

Web links

• Asa Adgate in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Asa Adgate in the database of Find a Grave (English)