John Baptista Ashe (representative)
John Baptista Ashe, was an American lawyer and the nephew of the Revolutionary War veteran John Baptista Ashe, who served as a U.S. Congressman for Tennessee for one term.Biography
Ashe was born in Rocky Point, Pender County, North Carolina, in 1810. He attended Fayetteville Academy and in the year 1830 was graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1832.Career
Ashe then moved to Tennessee and commenced practice in Brownsville. He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1845. After leaving Congress, he moved to Galveston County, Texas, and settled near Galveston to resume his practice of law.Death
Ashe continued the practice of his chosen profession until his death in Galveston on December 29, 1857. He is interred at a cemetery near Galveston.
