Samuel Ashe (other)
Samuel Ashe may refer to: * Samuel Ashe (North Carolina governor) (1725–1813), American politician, governor of North Carolina ** SS ''Samuel Ashe'', a Liberty ship *Samuel A'Court Ashe (1840–1938), American politician and Confederate soldier *Samuel Ashe (MP) Samuel Ashe (died 1708) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and from 1679 to 1681. Ashe was the son of James Ashe, a clothier of Freshford, Somerset, and his wife Grace Pitt, daughter of Richard Pitt of M ...

Samuel Ashe (North Carolina Governor)
Samuel Ashe (March 24, 1725February 3, 1813) was the ninth List of governors of North Carolina, governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798. He was also one of the first three judges of the North Carolina Superior Court in 1787. Life story Ashe was born in Beaufort, North Carolina, Beaufort in the Province of North Carolina. His father, John Baptista Ashe, and brother, John Ashe (general), John Ashe, both served as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, Speaker of the North Carolina Assembly, or House of Burgesses. Ashe became an orphan at the age of nine. He married Mary Porter in 1748; they had three children, including John Baptista Ashe (delegate), John Baptista Ashe, who would serve in the Continental Congress. After Mary died, Ashe remarried, this time to the former Elizabeth Merrik. Ashe studied law and was named Assistant Attorney for the Crown in the Wilmington, North Carolina, Wilmington district of the colony. He became involved i ...
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SS Samuel Ashe
SS ''Samuel Ashe'' was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Samuel Ashe the ninth Governor of the US state of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798. He was also one of the first three judges of the North Carolina Superior Court in 1787. Construction ''Samuel Ashe'' was laid down 17 July 1942, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 164, by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina: she was launched 17 September 1942, sponsored by Miss Shirley Jean Beasley, the daughter of E.O. Beasley, the foreman of welders at NCSB. History She was allocated to American South African Line, Inc., on 29 September 1942. Among her missions was repatriating part of the US 1269th Engineer Combat Battalion stateside from Antwerp in August 1945. On 6 January 1948, she was laid up in the James River Reserve Fleet, Jones Point, New York. She was laid up in the, Hudson River Reserve Fleet The Hudson River Reserve F ...
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Samuel A'Court Ashe
Samuel A'Court Ashe (September 13, 1840 – August 31, 1938) was a Confederate infantry captain in the American Civil War and celebrated editor, historian, and North Carolina legislator. Prior to his death in 1938, he was the last surviving commissioned officer of the Confederate States Army. Samuel's father, William Shepperd Ashe (1814–1862), served in the North Carolina state senate and as a United States Congressman. The United Confederate Veterans conferred the title of Brigadier General upon Samuel A. Ashe in 1936 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ashe is also noted for his booklet on the war titled ''A Southern View of the Invasion of the Southern States and War of 1861-65.'' Early life Born in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, in 1840, Ashe grew up near Wilmington and spent much of his life in Raleigh. He attended the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, where he met future naval historian and lifelong friend Alfred Thayer Mahan. Occupations When the war erupted ...
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