Thomas S. Ashe
(July 19, 1812 — February 4, 1887) Ashe was an American politician, lawyer, and judge. Thomas Samuel Ashe was born in Almance County, North Carolina in 1812. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1832 and was admitted to the bar in 1834. Ashe served as solicitor of the fifth judicial district of North Carolina from 1847 to 1851, and as a member to the State Senate in 1854. During the Civil War, he was a member of the Confederate Congress, serving in the Confederate House of Representatives (1861-1864) and being elected to the Confederate Senate (1864), but never carried out his office because the war ended. Ashe was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1877. After serving in Congress, he was elected as an associate justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court and served until his death in 1887.
[Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/A000309]
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North Carolina Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875
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