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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioASHLEY, James Mitchell
(1824—1896)
ASHLEY, James Mitchell, (great-grandfather of Thomas William Ludlow Ashley), a Representative from Ohio; born near Pittsburgh, Pa., November 14, 1824; instructed himself in elementary subjects while employed as a clerk on boats operating on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers; editor of the Dispatch, and afterwards of the Democrat, in Portsmouth, Ohio; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 but never practiced; moved to Toledo, Ohio, and engaged in the wholesale drug business; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1869); chairman, Committee on Territories (Thirty-seventh through Fortieth Congresses); unsuccessful Republican candidate for reelection in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress; delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists’ Convention in 1866; Governor of the Territory of Montana in 1869 and 1870; constructed the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Railroad, and served as president from 1877 to 1893; died in Alma, Gratiot County, Mich., September 16, 1896; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio.
Bibliography
Horowitz, Robert F. Great Impeacher: A Political Biography of James M. Ashley
. New York: Brooklyn College Press, 1979.
Ashley, James Mitchell. Impartial suffrage the only safe basis of Reconstruction: speech of Hon. James M. Ashley of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, May 29, 1866
. Washington: Congressional Globe Office , 1866.
———. Speech of Hon. J.M. Ashley, of Ohio: delivered in the House of Representatives, on Friday, January 6, 1865: on the constitutional amendment for the abolition of slavery
. New York: W.C. Bryant & Co., printers, 1865.
———. Speech of Hon. J.M. Ashley, of Ohio: In the House of Representatives, on the 30th day of March, 1864
. Washington, D.C.: H. Polkinhorn, printer, [1864?]
Horowitz, Robert F. Great Impeacher: A Political Biography of James M. Ashley
. New York: Brooklyn College Press, 1979.
———. “James M. Ashley: A Biography.” Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1973.
Jackson, W. Sherman. “Representative James M. Ashley and the Midwestern Origins of Amendment Thirteen.” Lincoln Herald
80 (Summer 1978): 83-95.
Kahn, Maxine B. “Congressman Ashley in the Post-Civil War Years.” Northwest Ohio Quarterly
36 (1964): 116-33, 194-210.
Smith, Gerrit. Gerrit Smith to General Ashley: [text of letter].
[Peterboro, N.Y.?: N.p., 1865?]
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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