John Baptista Ashe (politician, 1748)

John Baptista Ashe

John Baptista Ashe (born 1748 in Rocky Point , Pender County , Province of North Carolina , †  November 27, 1802 in Halifax , North Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1790 and 1793 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives . Before that, he was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787 .

Career

John Ashe was the son of Governor Samuel Ashe (1725–1813) and an uncle of Thomas Samuel Ashe (1812–1887) and William Shepperd Ashe (1814–1862), both of whom were congressmen for North Carolina. Another nephew was John Baptista Ashe (1810-1857), who sat for Tennessee in Congress . The elder John Baptista Ashe grew up during the British colonial era. He enjoyed a private upbringing in his parents' home and then worked in agriculture. During the Revolutionary War he served in a unit in the North Carolina Continental Army . He took part in several battles and was also present at Valley Forge's winter quarters . At the end of the war he had made it to the colonel.

After the war, Ashe began a political career. Between 1784 and 1786 he was a member of the House of Representatives from North Carolina , serving as its speaker in 1786. In 1787 he took part in the sessions of the Continental Congress in New York . In 1789 he was a member of the congregation that ratified the United States Constitution for North Carolina . In the same year he was a member of the North Carolina Senate . Ashe was in opposition to the policies of the federal government under President George Washington ( anti-administration ). Between March 24, 1790 and March 3, 1793 he represented the first constituency of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives.

After leaving Congress, John Ashe returned to farming. In 1795 he was re-elected to the State Senate. In 1802 he won the gubernatorial elections in North Carolina as a candidate for the Democratic Republican Party with 60:29 percent of the vote against the federalist William Polk. He could no longer take up his new office because he died before his inauguration on November 27, 1802.

Web links

• John Baptista Ashe in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• 41918015 John Baptista Ashe in the database of Find a Grave (English)