Asa Biggs

Asa Biggs

Asa Biggs (born February 4, 1811 in Williamston , Martin County , North Carolina , †  March 6, 1878 in Norfolk , Virginia ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ) who served the state of North Carolina in both houses of Congress represented.

After attending public schools and training in traditional subjects, Asa Biggs embarked on a legal career. After completing his apprenticeship, he was admitted to the bar in 1831 and began practicing in his hometown of Williamston. In 1835 he took on his first political mandate as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of North Carolina. From 1840 to 1842 he was a member of the House of Representatives from North Carolina , and from 1844 to 1845 he was a member of the State Senate .

On March 4, 1845, Biggs moved after a successful election into the House of Representatives of the United States in Washington , where he represented the ninth electoral district of his state until March 3, 1847. He applied for re-election, but failed. As a result he was again active in law; so he was in 1851 a member of a commission that revised the state laws of North Carolina.

Biggs returned to Congress as a US Senator on March 4, 1855 ; previously he had prevailed in the election against incumbent George Edmund Badger of the Whig Party . However, he only held his Senate mandate until May 5, 1858. That day, he resigned to follow President James Buchanan's appointment as a judge in the North Carolina District Court . Asa Biggs held this post until April 23, 1861; then he joined the Confederation as a judge . He supported the secession of the southern states and saw it in accordance with the United States Constitution .

After the war, Biggs initially worked as a lawyer in Tarboro . In 1869 he moved his residence and his law firm to Norfolk, Virginia, where he died in 1878.

Web links

• Asa Biggs in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Asa Biggs in the database of Find a Grave (English)