George Ashmun

George Ashmun ( born December 25, 1804 in Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts, † July 16, 1870 in Springfield, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1845 and 1851 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Ashmun was the son of Eli P. Ashmun U.S. Senator ( 1770-1819 ). In 1807 he moved with his parents to Northampton, where he attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1823 at Yale College. After a subsequent law degree in 1828 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Springfield in this profession. In the 1830s he became a member of the Whig party. Between 1833 and 1841 he was several times delegate in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, he served as its chairman in 1841. In 1838 and 1839 he was also sitting in the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1844 Ashmun in the sixth constituency of Massachusetts was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Osmyn Baker on March 4, 1845. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1851 three legislative periods. These were shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War. After the discussion on slavery determined the work of the Congress. In 1850, Ashmun gave up another Congress candidate.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again in Springfield. He joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854 and served as chairman of the meeting ( Chairman ) of the Republican National Convention in May 1860 in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. Ashmun has been renowned in the railway business and became one of the Union Pacific Railroad directors. In 1866 he was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia. He died on 16 July 1870 in Springfield.