Asa Clapp

Asa William Henry Clapp ( born March 6, 1805 in Portland, Massachusetts, † March 22, 1891 ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1849 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Asa Clapp was born in 1805 in Portland, which was still part of Massachusetts at that time. At the foundation of Maine in 1820, the city fell to the new state. Clapp attended until 1823 the Norwich Military Academy in Vermont and was thereafter in both the inland and foreign trade in Portland worked. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In 1846 he was second in the electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1847 the successor of Robert Dunlap. Since he resigned in 1848 to further candidacy, Asa Clapp was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1849. During this time, ended the Mexican -American War; In this context, large areas were in the west and southwest of the present-day United States under American administration. The northwestern border with Canada was then set at the 49th parallel.

In the years 1848 and 1852 was a delegate to the Democratic National Clapp conventions on which Lewis Cass and Franklin Pierce was nominated as the presidential candidate of the party. Otherwise, he resumed his previous activities in the commercial again. He was also, until his death in 1891, a director of the Maine General Hospital and the Portland Public Library.