Asa Grover

Asa Grover

Asa Porter Grover (born February 18, 1819 in Phelps , Ontario County , New York , †  July 20, 1887 in Georgetown , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1867 and 1869 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Asa Grover attended public schools in his home country. In 1837 he came to Kentucky; there he attended Center College in Danville . He then taught himself as a teacher. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1843, he began to practice this profession in Owenton . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1857 and 1865 he was a member of the Kentucky Senate . In 1863 he was a delegate to the Kentucky regional Democratic Party convention.

In the congressional elections of 1866 Grover was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Lovell Harrison Rousseau on March 4, 1867 . By March 3, 1869, he completed a term in Congress . Since 1865, the work of Parliament has been overshadowed by tension between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson , which culminated in a narrowly unsuccessful impeachment trial.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Asa Grover returned to work as a lawyer. Since 1881 he was based in Georgetown; He died there on July 20, 1887.

Web links

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

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