Ashley, James Mitchell

Life Span
to
Full name
James Mitchell Ashley
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, PA
Burial Place
Woodlawn Cemetery, Dayton, OH
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Occupation
Politician
Businessman
Journalist
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Republican
Government
Grant Administration (1869-77)
US House of Representatives
Governor

James Mitchell Ashely (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
ASHLEY, James Mitchell,  (great-grandfather of Thomas William Ludlow Ashley), a Representative from Ohio; born near Pittsburgh, Pa., November 14, 1824; instructed himself in elementary subjects while employed as a clerk on boats operating on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers; editor of the Dispatch, and afterwards of the Democrat, in Portsmouth, Ohio; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 but never practiced; moved to Toledo, Ohio, and engaged in the wholesale drug business; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1869); chairman, Committee on Territories (Thirty-seventh through Fortieth Congresses); unsuccessful Republican candidate for reelection in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress; delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists’ Convention in 1866; Governor of the Territory of Montana in 1869 and 1870; constructed the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Railroad, and served as president from 1877 to 1893; died in Alma, Gratiot County, Mich., September 16, 1896; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio.
"Ashley, James Mitchell," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000314.
Date Event
In state elections, Ohio Republicans easily retain control of the legislature and congressional delegation.
The House of Representatives requests its Judiciary Committee to investigate impeachment of President Johnson
The Fortieth Congress orders its Judiciary Committee to continue impeachment investigations on President Johnson
In Washington, the House Judiciary Committee reports and recommends the impeachment of President Johnson.
The Fortieth Congress strongly rejects its Judiciary Committee's recommendation to President Johnson.
Fugitive Slave Law
Thirty-Seventh Congress of the United States
Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States
Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
Fortieth Congress of the United States
Date Title
James M. Ashley, Motion to Impeach the President of the United States, floor of the House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., January 7, 1867.
Date Title
James M. Ashley, Motion to Impeach the President of the United States, floor of the House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., January 7, 1867.
How to Cite This Page: "Ashley, James Mitchell," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5007.