Asa Adgate

Asa Adgate ( born November 17 1767 in Canaan, New York, † February 15, 1832 in Chesterfield, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1815 and 1817 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Asa Adgate was born during the British colonial period in Canaan and grew up there. In 1793 he moved to Adgates If the Ausable River and from there into the township of Peru in Clinton County (now Ausable Chasm in the Township of Chesterfield in Essex County), where he worked as an iron manufacturer and pursued agricultural work. After the founding of the Town of Peru In 1793 he was elected town clerk (town clerk ) and re-elected in 1794. He was working as Town Supervisor in 1795 and in the years 1796 and 1797 as an assessor. In 1798 he worked as Commissioner of Schools. In the same year he sat for Clinton County in the New York State Assembly. He served in the years 1798 and 1799 as a lieutenant of infantry from Clinton County in the National Guard of New York. On March 9, 1799 Governor John Jay appointed him in the First Commission of Peace for Essex County to one of the judges on the Court of Common Pleas - a position which he held for several years.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined at that time, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. He was in a by-election on 7 June 1815 twelfth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of Benjamin Pond. Since he gave up for reelection in 1816, he retired after the March 3, 1817 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he returned to his former activities. In 1823 he sat for Essex County in the New York State Assembly. He died on 15 February 1832 in Ausable Chasm and was then buried in the Cemetery in the township of Ausable Chasm Ausable.