John Baptista Ashe (politician, 1810)

John Baptista Ashe ( 1810 in Rocky Point , Pender County , North Carolina , †  December 29, 1857 in Galveston , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1843 and 1845 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Baptista Ashe was a member of a well-known family of politicians. He was the older brother of William Shepperd Ashe (1814-1862), who represented North Carolina in Congress between 1849 and 1855 . He was also a cousin of Thomas Samuel Ashe (1812-1887), who was also a congressman for North Carolina from 1873 to 1877. His uncle John (1748-1802) was a delegate to the Continental Congress and also sat for North Carolina in the US House of Representatives.

Ashe visited the Fayetteville Academy and then to 1830 the Trinity College in Hartford ( Connecticut ). After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1832, he began to work in Brownsville in his new profession. Politically, Ashe was a member of the Whig Party . In the congressional election of 1842 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Democrat Aaron V. Brown on March 4, 1843 . Until March 3, 1845 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress. This was determined by the discussions about a possible annexation of the Republic of Texas , which had been independent of Mexico since 1836 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, John Ashe moved to Galveston, Texas, where he practiced as a lawyer. He died there on December 29, 1857.

Web links

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