Asa Clapp

Asa Clapp

Asa William Henry Clapp (born March 6, 1805 in Portland , Massachusetts , †  March 22, 1891 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1847 and 1849 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Asa Clapp was born in 1805 in Portland, which was then still part of Massachusetts. When Maine was founded in 1820, the city became part of the new state. Clapp attended the Norwich Military Academy in Vermont until 1823 and was then active in both domestic and foreign trade in Portland. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party .

In 1846 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the Second Constituency of Maine . There he took over from Robert Dunlap on March 4, 1847 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1848, Asa Clapp could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1849 . During this time the Mexican-American War ended ; in this context, large areas in the west and southwest of what is now the United States came under American administration. The north-western border with Canada was also set at the 49th parallel at that time.

In 1848 and 1852, Clapp was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions , where Lewis Cass and Franklin Pierce were nominated as the party's presidential candidates. Otherwise, he resumed his previous trade. He was also a director of the Maine General Hospital and the Portland Public Library until his death in 1891 .

Web links

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

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