Thomas Samuel Ashe

Thomas Samuel Ashe

Thomas Samuel Ashe (born July 19, 1812 in Hawfields , Orange County , North Carolina , †  February 4, 1887 in Wadesboro , North Carolina) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ) who founded the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives and in the Confederate Congress .

Young Thomas Ashe was educated at a private school in Hillsborough and then attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where he graduated in 1832. In 1834 he was admitted to the bar; he began practicing the following year in Wadesboro, Anson County . He had his first political mandate in 1842 as a member of the House of Representatives from North Carolina . From 1847 to 1851 he was a district attorney in the 5th District Court of North Carolina; in 1854 he was a member of the State Senate .

During the Civil War , Ashe was also politically active in the Confederation . He was elected to the House of Representatives for North Carolina at the First Confederate Congress, where he remained until 1864. He was elected to the Confederate Senate that year , but the war ended before he could take office.

After the war, Ashe ran for governor of North Carolina in 1868 , but was defeated by Republican William Woods Holden . For this he was a member of the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC from March 4, 1873 . After two terms, he resigned on March 3, 1877 from the House of Representatives and returned to North Carolina, where he was elected Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court in 1878 . Ashe was sustained in 1886 and died in office the following year.

His cousins John Baptista Ashe and William Shepperd Ashe were also MPs in the US House of Representatives.

Web links

• Thomas Samuel Ashe in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas Samuel Ashe in the database of Find a Grave (English)