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Ashe, Thomas Samuel

lawyer, congressman, was born in Orange county, N. C. He graduated at the university of North Carolina in 1832; studied law and pursued that profession; and in 1842 was elected a member of the legislature of North Carolina. In 1847 he was elected solicitor of the fifth judicial district of North Carolina, and served in that capacity four years; in 1854 was elected 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; and was one of the councilors of state in 1866; He was elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses.