ASHE, Thomas S. was born in Orange County, North Carolina; graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1832; studdied law and pursued that profession; in 1842 was elcted a member of the Legislature of North Caorlina; in 1847 was elected Solicitor of the Fifth Judicial District of North Carolina, and served in that capacity four years; in 1854 was elcted to the State Senate; in 1861 was elected to the House of Representatives of the Confederate States; to the Senate of the Confederate Congress in 1864; was one of the Councilors of State in 1866; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Comittee on Coinage, Weights and Measures.
(Source: Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, "Charles Lanman, Joseph M. Morrison") |
