List of United States Political Families (A) - The Ashes

The Ashes

  • John Baptista Ashe, North Carolina Colony Assemblyman. Father of John Ashe and Samuel Ashe.
    • John Ashe (1720–1781), North Carolina Colony Assemblyman, North Carolina Colony Congressman, Treasurer of North Carolina 1777–1781. Son of John Baptista Ashe.
    • Samuel Ashe (1725–1813), North Carolina Colony Congressman, President of the North Carolina Council of Safety 1776, North Carolina State Senator, Judge of the North Carolina Superior Court 1777–1795, Governor of North Carolina 1795–1798. Son of John Baptista Ashe.
      • John Baptista Ashe (1748–1802), member of the North Carolina House of Common 1784–1786, Delegate to the Continental Congress from North Carolina 1787, North Carolina State Senator 1789, U.S. Representative from North Carolina 1790–1793. Son of Samuel Ashe.
      • William Henry Hill (1767–1809), U.S. District Attorney of North Carolina, North Carolina State Senator, U.S. Representative from North Carolina 1799–1803. Nephew and cousin by marriage of Samuel Ashe.
        • John Baptista Ashe (1810–1857), U.S. Representative from Tennessee 1843–1845. Nephew of John Baptista Ashe.
        • Thomas Samuel Ashe (1812–1887), member of the North Carolina House of Commons 1842, Solicitor in North Carolina 1847–1851, North Carolina State Senator 1854, Confederate States Representative from North Carolina 1861–1864, Counselor of North Carolina 1866, candidate for Governor of North Carolina 1868, U.S. Representative from North Carolina 1873–1877, Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court 1878–1887. Nephew of John Baptista Ashe.
        • William Shepperd Ashe (1814–1862), North Carolina State Senator 1846–1848 1859–1861, U.S. Representative from North Carolina 1849–1855, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1860, delegate to the North Carolina Constitutional Convention 1861. Nephew of John Baptista Ashe.
        • Alfred M. Waddell (1834–1912), Clerk of Equity Court in North Carolina 1858–1861, U.S. Representative from North Carolina 1871–1879, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1880 1896, Mayor of Wilmington, North Carolina 1898–1904. Cousin by marriage of Samuel Ashe.
        • Horatio Davis (1840–1912), Judge in Virginia 1880–1886, Mayor of Gainesville, Florida 1908–1909. Great-grandnephew of Samuel Ashe.
          • James A. Lockhart (1850–1905), North Carolina State Representative 1878, North Carolina State Senator 1880, U.S. Representative from North Carolina 1895–1897. Son-in-law of Thomas Samuel Ashe.

NOTE: Horatio Davis was also brother and fourth cousin of Confederate State politician George Davis. James A. Lockhart is also third cousin twice removed of U.S. President William J. Clinton.

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