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  Ashley, William H.
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NameWilliam H. Ashley
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Boonville, Missouri , United States
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Born 00, 1778
DiedMarch 26, 1838 (60 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Dec 13, 2014 04:51pm
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InfoASHLEY, William Henry, a Representative from Missouri; born in Powhatan County, Va., in 1778; attended the common schools; moved to St. Genevieve, Mo. (then Upper Louisiana), in 1803; engaged in the manufacture of saltpeter; became a merchant and later a surveyor; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1808; brigadier general of militia during the War of 1812; traded with the Indians and dealt in furs; unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1824; founded an organization which in 1830 became the Rocky Mountain Fur Co., and conducted trading and exploring expeditions to the headwaters of the Missouri River; elected as the first Lieutenant Governor of Missouri and served from 1820 to 1824; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Spencer D. Pettis; reelected to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and served from October 31, 1831, to March 3, 1837; did not seek renomination in 1836 but was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Missouri in 1836; died near Boonville, Mo., March 26, 1838; interment in an Indian mound overlooking the Missouri River, near his home, on the Lamine River, in Cooper County, Mo.


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  08/01/1836 MO Governor Lost 47.70% (-4.60%)
  08/03/1835 MO At-Large Won 29.71% (+4.56%)
  08/06/1832 MO At-Large Won 60.55% (+21.09%)
  10/31/1831 MO At-Large - Special Election Won 50.62% (+1.23%)
  08/02/1824 MO Governor Lost 42.90% (-14.21%)
  08/28/1820 MO Lt. Governor Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
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  08/05/1833 MO At-Large Won 0.00% (-27.39%)
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