Asher G. Caruth

Asher Graham Caruth ( born February 7, 1844 in Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, † November 25, 1907 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1895 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Caruth Asher attended the common schools and the high school in Louisville. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Louisville and his 1866 was admitted to the bar he began in Hopkinsville to work in this profession. There he also founded the newspaper " Weekly Kentucky New Era ". In 1871 he moved his office and his residence to Louisville. Between 1873 and 1880 he served as curator of the public schools of this city. From 1880 to 1887 was Caruth prosecutor in the Ninth Judicial District of Kentucky.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1886, he was in the fifth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Albert S. Willis on March 4, 1887. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 four legislative sessions.

For the elections of 1894 Caruth has not been nominated by his party for another term. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again in Louisville. In 1902 he became a judge at the criminal court in Jefferson County. In 1904 Caruth Asher was commissioner of the State of Kentucky at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the World's Fair in St. Louis. He died on 25 November 1907 in his hometown of Louisville, and was also buried there.

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