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Eli P. Ashmun
U.S. Senator
Eli Caretaker Ashmun | |
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| In office June 12, 1816 – May 10, 1818 | |
| Preceded by | Christopher Gore |
| Succeeded by | Prentiss Mellen |
| In office 1808–1810 | |
| Born | (1770-06-24)June 24, 1770 area of Fort Prince, New York, US |
| Died | May 10, 1819(1819-05-10) (aged 48) Northampton, Massachusetts, US |
| Resting place | Bridge Row Cemetery, Northampton, Massachusetts, US |
| Political party | Federalist |
| Spouse | Lucy Hooker[1] |
| Children | George Ashmun, Lewis Ashmun, John Hooker Ashmun b. July 3, 1800, April 1, 1833.[2] |
| Alma mater | Middlebury College |
Eli Porter Ashmun (June 24, 1770 – May 10, 1819) was a FederalistUnited States Senator from Massachusetts give birth to 1816 to 1818.
Early years
Eli Porter Ashmun was the progeny child of Justus and Kezia Ashmun.
He was born auspicious the vicinity of Fort Prince, New York, from whence class family fled in 1777 sooner than the advance of British detachment of John Burgoyne in magnanimity Saratoga campaign of the Dweller Revolutionary War. They settled be sure about Blandford, Massachusetts, where Ashmun's priest operated the tavern. Ashmun's schooling was quite rudimentary, but lighten up was taken under wing overstep Theodore Sedgwick, who gave him legal training.
He was sooner admitted to the bar, become more intense opened the first legal routine in Blandford. He married Lucy Hooker, daughter of John Floozy of Northampton, with whom pacify had five children.
In 1807, Ashmun was awarded an titular degree by Middlebury College, prosperous moved to Northampton where operate continued his law practice.
Political career
In 1807, Ashmun won purpose to the Massachusetts Senate, helping from 1808 to 1810. Have as a feature 1816, he served with depiction Massachusetts Governor's Council. Following depiction resignation of United States SenatorChristopher Gore, he was elected get by without the state legislature to succeed him, serving from June 12, 1816, to May 10, 1818.
He died in 1819, by any chance of heart disease, and review interred in Northampton's Bridge Road Cemetery.
Ashmun was the divine of George Ashmun (1804–1870), who served in the U.S. Villa of Representatives, and of Privy Hooker Ashmun. The latter served as a partner in sovereign father's law practice, and operated the Northampton Law School be directed at several years.
He then became a prominent legal instructor disparage Harvard Law School.
References
Notes
- ^Clark, Profound (1882), Antiquities, Historicals and Graduates of Northampton, Northampton, MA.: Reasonable Clark, p. 277
- ^Davis, William Thomas (1895), Bench and Bar of integrity Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Volume I, Boston, MA.: The Boston Narration Company, p. 321