Ashbel P. Fitch

Ashbel Parmelee Fitch ( born October 8, 1848 in Mooers, New York, † May 4, 1904 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1887 and 1893 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ashbel Parmelee Fitch was born about eight months after the end of the Mexican - American War in Mooers in Clinton County and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools in New York, the Williston Seminary in Easthampton (Massachusetts), the universities of Jena and Berlin ( Germany ) and the Columbia College Law School in New York City. His admission to the bar he received in November 1869, then began to practice in New York City.

Politically he belonged at that time to the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1886, for the 50th Congress Fitch was in the 13th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Egbert Ludovicus Many took on 4 March 1887. In the following years, he joined the Democratic Party. In 1888 he successfully ran for the 51st Congress and 1890 for the 52nd Congress, where he had presided over the Committee on Private Land Claims. They then elected him in 1892 in the 15th electoral district of New York in the 53rd Congress, where he became the successor of Henry Bacon on March 4, 1893. On December 26, 1893, he came back, however, from his seat. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in the short term.

Between 1893 and 1897 he worked as Comptroller. He was 1899 president of the Trust Company of America. On May 4, 1904, he died in New York City and was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery.