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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioJames Mitchell ASHLEY
(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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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